Information for new Triarchy Authors

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Triarchy Press is a very small and very independent publishing house.  The economics of small-scale international publishing do not give us a lot of leeway. Our time and resources are very limited. 

While we offer the best editorial and sub-editorial support that we can to authors (which few publishers can provide any longer) and while being published by a press tells the world something about the quality of your writing, we cannot afford  the professional 'bellowers' needed to sell books in large quantities (PR people in London and New York, lunches with journalists and reviewers, deals with airport bookshops and so on). As a Triarchy author, you need to do your own bellowing. The publishing infrastructure that we provide (bibliographic listings, international distribution of print and digital versions, agencies and so forth) is comprehensive, but it doesn't guarantee sales.

As a result:
  • We can never offer you an advance.
  • We can never pay you royalties until 300 copies of a book (print and digital combined) have been sold - those 300 do not include review copies, publicity copies, author's copies, etc. That's because we do not break even on the costs of publishing a book until we reach 300 sales.
  • The standard royalty we pay is £1/book on titles selling at more that £15 and £0.75 on titles selling for less.
  • If your book does exceptionally well (selling many thousands of copies) we share the proceeds with you much more equally.

From all this, you can see that writing a book with Triarchy is not a way to riches. (Nor is publishing it a way to riches for us.) It is, however, a very different experience from self-publishing or from being published by a large international conglomerate and it does suit some authors well. (We can put you in touch with Triarchy authors in your field if you like.) 

If you are undeterred, please send us a proposal. 
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Download a book proposal form. 
Dowload the marketing proposal form. 

As far as possible, we ask authors to follow the Triarchy Press Style Guide:
Download the Triarchy Press Style Guide 

Read about Triarchy's policy on Open Access 

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