Book Publishers Offering Advances

Bookshops are beleaguered and publishers are struggling but it appears that the money is still there for the right books.

Book publishers offering advances. The publisher usually invests 10 000 minimum in the publishing of a book with the amount often being twice that. Traditional publishers also provide capital the money needed to pay an advance to the writer and possibly an illustrator and to pay to print and bind the books and expertise help with editing your book designing it finding and working with an illustrator printing it to high standards selling it and marketing it. They offer advances to authors.

Polis books is an independent book publisher founded in 2013 aiming to deliver the service and distribution of a major trade publishing house with the nimbleness innovation and forward thinking of an independent press at the vanguard of an ever changing industry. They focus on publishing nonfiction books aimed at niche markets. These contracts can offer advances of 1 million or more against expected royalties and worldwide rights sales.

Hi linda thanks for sharing about your book. Polis books offers an upfront advance against. This was after they became an imprint of simon schuster.

Now accepting book pitches. Do you offer advances. Among grahame smith s new confrères are the 12 non fiction authors including elizabeth wurtzel sued four years ago by penguin usa which sought to recoup the advances plus interest for books it.

Tyrus books permenently closed its doors as of april 7th 2017. Ulysses press is an independent publisher that has been around for almost a decade. Basic types of publishing type 1.

As josh bernoff points out your best chance at an advance is to have a solid platform following that demonstrates to the publisher your likelihood of selling thousands of books. All the work they publish leans towards literary. Irish debut novelist kathleen macmahon has just landed a 600 000 advance.