Shelf III · open
The Open Shelf.
These shelves are empty. That is not an oversight — it is an invitation. Every genre below is one we have room for and have not filled yet, and the person who fills it will not be us.
Open · waiting on an author
It could be you on this shelf.
Your book, your poems, your curriculum. We are small on purpose and public by design — the terms live on this website rather than in an envelope, so you can read them before you ever speak to us.
Comics & Graphic Novels
Sequential art. A single issue, a run, or a whole graphic novel — drawn, lettered and bound properly.
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Poetry
A collection with a spine to it. Not a scattering of pieces — a book that knows why it is in that order.
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Curriculum
Something you have taught, written down so somebody else can teach it. Workbooks, courses, study guides.
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Memoir & Testimony
The part of your life you have been carrying for somebody else to find.
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Short Fiction
Stories that do not need three hundred pages to land.
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Children’s & Young Readers
Books for the age where a person is still deciding what is possible.
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Practical & Trade
What you know how to do with your hands, written down properly.
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Faith & Reflection
Yours, in your own words, not somebody else’s house style.
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Research & Reference
The thing you have spent years assembling that nobody else has assembled.
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How it works
Read the terms first.
The rate card and the model author agreement are published in full. Nothing is hidden until a signature. Start there, then write to us.