Book Publishers Offering Advances
They focus on publishing nonfiction books aimed at niche markets.
Book publishers offering advances. They pay you a royalty and sometimes an advance for rights to publish your book in specific forms and or specific territories often exclusive rights meaning you can t sell it to another publisher or self publish it while the contract remains in force. Tyrus books permenently closed its doors as of april 7th 2017. Now accepting book pitches.
Polis books offers an upfront advance against. Ulysses press is an independent publisher that has been around for almost a decade. These contracts can offer advances of 1 million or more against expected royalties and worldwide rights sales.
Basic types of publishing type 1. 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. This was after they became an imprint of simon schuster.
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. Do you offer advances. Irish debut novelist kathleen macmahon has just landed a 600 000 advance.
They offer advances to authors. For a popular writer with a loyal audience multi book contracts are a way for publishers to lock up the rights to book sales as well as the rights for movies television series e books and foreign editions. Most large traditional publishers don t charge fees but they do take a large chunk of royalties sometimes leaving you with just 15.
Smaller publishers might offer you more. 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. For example tck publishing splits royalties with our authors 50 50 and we don t charge any fees for our services.