Paraklesis Press is a traditional publisher, meaning we pay our authors and they don’t pay us. Our authors earn royalties.
Some advantages of publishing with us:
- Our royalty rates are very much higher than other publishers pay.
- We are small, so all the fish in our pond get to feel like big fish
- We pray for our authors
- We edit the books we publish
- We have high-quality illustrations
- We pay to advertise our books
Some disadvantages:
- We are not paying advances at this time
- This press is a labor of love, not a paying proposition for us, so we are working in our spare time and that makes us painfully slow
- Though the books will be available anywhere books are sold, we have no sales people who visit stores and convince buyers to stock our titles. Anyone can walk into any store and order our books, but customers won’t find us as they browse bookstore shelves. This means we are relying on our authors to do school visits and to sell their books at speaking engagements. If the authors don’t sell the books, they won’t sell.
If you’d still like to submit to us, feel free.
Please keep in mind that we have a pretty specific mission. We are open to all manner of genres, but all are books will be written from a perspective that is a bit to the right side of center in regards to political, religious, and social issues.
If you have a work that is in line with our mission (you don’t have to share our political or religious views to write for us, but your books need to be friendly to our perspective) send a complete manuscript, along with a synopses, and comp books to:
submissions@paraklesispress.com
In the future we will be expanding, if all goes well, and we will be looking for the following books:
Books for Children (aged 0-18)
Nonfiction
Imprint: THink
- Christian Living
- Bible Study
- “How To” Books
Fiction
Imprint: Paraklesis Press
- Mystery
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi
- Action/Adventure
Picture Books
Imprint: Whispers of Dawn
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- All Genres
Self-Published Books
Imprint: ALPS
