Our Imprints — the name on the spine

An ISBN is a number.
An imprint is a name.

Every print book needs an ISBN, one way or another. But a number never made a book look published — a name does that: the publisher's mark on your spine, your copyright page, and the industry databases that libraries and bookstores read. Ours can be yours.

Seven flags, each with a lane.

Landfall Ink

Literary & general fiction

The house's first flag; where books that defy shelves come home.

First Blossom Books

Romance

Debuted with a Revolution-era love story written for people who read the author's note.

Halcón Books

Science fiction & fantasy

For the worlds that need building before they need printing.

Cold Frame Press

Horror & thriller

What grows in the cold frame.

Carpenter Bee Books

Children's

The gentlest lane in the fleet, guarded accordingly.

The Keeping Books

Journals & nonfiction

For the records people actually keep.

After Dark Coloring

Coloring with an edge

The founding line of this company: it began as a bet that we couldn't make a friend a coloring book. Everything you see here descends from that wager.

The Compact, verbatim spine.

For $99 with your package, your book gets an ISBN from our registered Bowker block — permanently yours — and is published under the imprint that fits it, the name matched character-for-character across every database.

You keep 100% of your royalties, 100% of your rights, and your own Amazon account — always. We never touch your money, never hold your account, never take a percentage of anything, ever.

A traditional publisher takes your rights and most of your money. A vanity press takes your fees and your account. We take a one-time fee and give you a family.

The Shipwright's Daughter copyright page — Published by First Blossom Books

The real thing: The Shipwright's Daughter's copyright page — the flag, the ISBN, the record.

You're accepted by an imprint. You don't pick one from a dropdown.

Every book is read before it flies a flag — usually the same day, always within 24 hours — because the name is shared with every author under it, and the house guards it for everyone's sake. We reserve the time-honored right to decline; the lines that don't move are short: flat-out hatred doesn't board at any price, and nothing shelved for children carries adult weather. When we say yes, we mean it.

An ISBN is a number.
An imprint is a name.

Seven flags, each with a lane.

The Compact, verbatim spine.

You're accepted by an imprint. You don't pick one from a dropdown.

Who's the publisher of record?

The name is waiting.