Welcome to Red Hill Publishing and the home of our sister business Red Hill Digital. If you're looking for a simple yet professional publishing solution you've come to the right place. Here's what you can expect when working with the Red Hill team:
- Professional structural and copy editing
- Expert proofreading
- Professional indexing
- Commercial grade cover and type design
- Typesetting using the latest design/typesetting software
- Ebook creation and distribution (e.g. Amazon Kindle Store)
- Printing to commercial trade standards using recognised trade printers
- ISBN allocation (for both physical and digital editions), CiP registration
- Submission of titles to meet statutory legal deposit requirements
- Listing in the APA TitlePage database
- Bibliographic listings in key indexes
- Distribution into selected retail stores (performed by Red Hill, terms apply)
- Distribution into international stores (via Lightning Source 'POD' service, not yet available and applicable only to titles meeting LSI print guidelines)
- Strategic assistance with marketing planning and execution, launch events, publicity and related publishing industry activities
- About publishing your book with Red Hill
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Red Hill Publishing produces quality non-fiction books with independent authors.
If that’s you, here are the key facts you need to know about us:
- Red Hill is an author-retained rights publisher.
- You invest in your work and retain your rights, control and profits (with our business model you stand to make significantly more money than you would from a traditional publishing deal).
- From concept through editing, proofing, typesetting, cover design and printing, the overriding principle guiding every decision we make is quality.
- We have the experience that matters; 20+ years trade publishing in Australia and the UK; 15+ years entertainment industry management & marketing experience.
- You can trust Red Hill Publishing to produce commercially viable books of the highest editorial quality.
- Publishing/submission guidelines
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Red Hill Publishing has clear guidelines for the projects we publish. Here’s what we look for:
- Authors with the ability to finance their project, paying agreed fees in line with agreed milestones.
- Authors with a commercially viable publishing proposal that meets stringent editorial standards.
- Authors with a clearly defined brand within their niche.
- Authors with channels to market beyond traditional bookstores/retailers.
- Authors with the ability to co-warehouse printed stock of their project.
- Authors with a willingness to work collaboratively in publishing their book.
- Authors who are prepared to actively market their book (with strategic assistance from the Red Hill team).
If you think Red Hill is the right publisher for you, fill in our submission form and attach up to 3 sample chapters of your manuscript (.doc, .docx, .pages, .rtf; one file only). No paper submissions and we recycle without prejudice!
- What Red Hill doesn't publish
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There are also a limited number of genres/categories we don't publish, including:
- Children's books
- Poetry
- Works of fiction
- Technical manuals and education resources
- How we work and what it means for your book
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Red Hill is an author-retained rights publisher. Our authors invest in the production of their work and then pay 12.5% on all books sold; but only after all pre-print costs are recouped.
In return, authors retain their rights, control and the majority of the profits.On a traditional publishing deal the author would make, say, 10% of a book selling for $29.95 ($3 per copy). Red Hill authors make 87.5% of the selling price ($26 per copy on a $29.95 book) after the establishment costs are recouped through sales, and earn 100% of all revenue before establishment costs are recouped.
We offer the same percentage breakdown for our digital distribution services into online stores such as Amazon’s Kindle Store (net receipts).
Importantly, we only select titles that we consider have strong sales potential, so that our authors don’t end up (as can be the case) with a garage full of books that they can’t shift.
If these arrangements interest you we look forward to receiving and assessing your manuscript.
An important note about submissions
- We only accept manuscript submissions via our submission form.
- Paper submissions will be recycled without prejudice.
- Complete all required fields as thoroughly as possible.
