California Book Publishers • Book Publishing Companies

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Native Ink Press

Native Ink Press is an imprint of Ink Smith Publishing. Here at Native Ink Press we hold the same ideals and traditions as Ink Smith Publishing. We are looking to bring together great authors and great books that we want to see out there in the market. Whether you are a first time author, or well developed in the industry, Native Ink Press is looking for those dedicated to their books as much as we are. Native Ink Press publishes books in both print and ebook format. We work with our distributors to get our books into local and international markets. Just like Ink Smith Publishing we work openly with our authors and connect on all social mediums including email, Facebook and texts. It may not be the traditional form of communication that other publishers use, but it allows our authors to get those eager questions answered as soon as possible. Further providing the dedication to our authors that we try our hardest to bring. We are a paying publisher offering a starting rate of 13% royalties for print books and 18% for ebooks.Read More

Ink Smith Publisher

As an independent publishing house, we do our best to bring our authors a great experience. Our goal and mission is to provide a great experience for first or second time authors. We pride ourselves Read More

Fat Dog Books

Fat Dog Books is an independent online publisher founded on the premise that if our experience with reading a manuscript is satisfying and engages our intellect and imaginationRead More

Stone Pier Press

We publish good books about good food. Our books highlight kinder, greener, and more climate-friendly ways to grow, distribute, and eat food. That might mean a memoir by a farmer challenging us to stop thinking Read More

Aionios Books

Aionios Books is a partner publishing company. We form collaborative relationships with our authors to develop, produce, market, and sell books Read More

Strategic Book Publishing (SBP)

"Strategic Book Publishing (SBP) is a member of the Strategic Book Group which has published over 1! 000 authors in the last 24 months in all genres, including children's books. The Strategic Book Group also includes Kindle and ebook Consulting, Writers Services, a Book-To-Film Division, and a global foreign rights department. Asked what Strategic does better than their competition, their CEO states, "Frankly, our book marketing division is better than anyone's.Read More

Grace Notes Books (DEFUNCT)

DEFUNCT Grace Notes Books is an independent publisher of high quality trade paperbacks, specializing in poetry collections, short fiction or essay collections, and novels. We do not have genre restrictions but we prefer works that seek to combine the art of "literary" writing with the craft of "popular writing". Works…Read More

Ink Smith Publishing

Ink Smith Publishing is a small independent publishing house. Our authors and editors work closely together to develop their booksRead More

Digital Fabulists

Publishes trade paperback originals and reprints, ebooks, and audiobooks. 50% of books from first-time authors. 90% from unagented writers. Does not accept simultaneous submissionsRead More

Inknbeans Press

We're a medium sized publisher with the intimate approach of a small press. Every author is a part of the team, and each book is a treasure to be treated with respect and admiration.Read More

Empire Publishing & Literary Service Bureau

After you have poured your heart and soul into a story that you want to share with the world, your publishing experience should be an exciting adventure,Read More

Rocín Publishing

Rocín is an independent press in California founded on a belief in printed books as well as the worlds, historiesRead More

Atomic Drop Press

Atomic Drop Press publishes smart, funny, off-beat fiction and non-fiction. After working with mainstream publishers from Random House to DC Comics to the National LampoonRead More

BLVNP

BLVNP has had vast Internet Success as well as Standard Publishing Success over the years since it was founded in 2003. BLVNP brings to the market a wide range of book genres, across both digital and traditional platforms. We embrace adventurous themes and we aggressively use new techniques and social media profiles to bring readers the entertainment they crave and writers the success they deserve. These books will ensure our readers' enjoyment which in turn will contribute to making their lives better. We hope to assist in achieving a stress-free life, to cultivate imagination in children, and to promote fun projects for adults. Read More

Malachite Quills Publishing

Malachite Quills Publishing was founded in 2011 to promote quality innovation in publishing. Too many new publishers left their writers without any support Read More

The Hamburg Press

The Hamburg Press published its first public volume, History & War by Theodore Ropp, in 1984. A few other public trade books followed but in the following decades Read More

ASHANTI PUBLISHING GROUP

Ashanti Publishing Group is an innovative and forward-thinking publishing company committed to creating books that inspire and entertainRead More

ScienceThrillers Media

ScienceThrillers Media is a boutique hybrid publisher that specializes in stories with scientific or medical themes, and stories with protagonistsRead More

Laughing Fire Press

http://www.laughingfire.com Laughing Fire Press is an independent publisher specializing in small print runs of fiction, poetry, and plays. Books are available in hardcover, softcover, and electronic versions. Works are published using publishing-on-demand technology and are sold through bookstores, wholesalers Ingram and Baker & Taylor, on-line bookstores such as Amazon.com, and…Read More

Black Bed Sheet Books

Publishes hardcover and trade paperback originals and reprints, and ebooks. Publishes 10-15 print titles per year, 10-20 ebook-only titles. Receives 40% of books from first-time authors; 90% from unagented writers. Pays average of 14% royalty on wholesale price for print books, 18%-50% on ebooks. Read More

Kelsey Street Press

Adventure Book Publisher, Book Publishing Company, Literary Book Publishing Company, Poetry Book Publishing Company, Women\'s Studies Read More

JukePop Serials

JukePop Serials is a new site for popular fiction, published in chapter installments. We believe it is the perfect time for a resurgence in serial fiction. Serial fiction in the modern world Read More

Shoot Your Eye Out Publishing

Shoot Your Eye Out Publishing is a small book publisher start-up in a world where many would say that publishing is a dying art. Like newspapers and record producers, the conventional wisdom is that publishing has been pushed aside by the Internet and Internet Search. Any author can publish their own work today, and thousands and thousands doRead More

Black Scat Books

Based in the Bay Area, Black Scat Books is an independent small publisher specializing in eccentric works by artists and writers in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to hardcover and paperback books, we issue limited edition chapbooks in our Absurdist Texts & Documents series. For those who insist on labels, we publish artist's books, Dada, Pataphysics, photography, satire, black humour, avant-garde & experimental fiction. In this deadly digital age with sales of printed books plummeting and independent booksellers biting the dust, our goal is to buck the trend and publish works shunned by an increasingly timid Read More