Publishing
Hybrid Publishing
Hybrid publishing gives you a traditional publisher's editorial and design standards, with the rights, royalties, and control that come from funding and owning the project yourself.
Publishing
Hybrid publishing gives you a traditional publisher's editorial and design standards, with the rights, royalties, and control that come from funding and owning the project yourself.
Hybrid publishing sits between traditional publishing and self-publishing: you pay for the services a project needs, but you get real editorial and design standards applied, and you keep the rights, higher royalties, and creative control that traditional deals typically ask authors to give up.
Every hybrid project is scoped around your manuscript rather than a fixed package — editing, cover design, formatting, ISBN registration, and distribution are assembled to fit the book you've actually written, not a one-size-fits-all bundle.
You Keep the Rights
Full ownership of your manuscript and higher royalty rates than a traditional publishing contract.
Professional Editorial Standards
The same developmental and line editing process used across every manuscript we work on.
Scoped to Your Book
Services assembled around what your specific manuscript needs, not a fixed package.
Full Distribution Access
Placement across Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, and wider retail and library channels.
Often paired with Hybrid Publishing.
A more hands-on, author-directed path for authors who want to manage more of the process themselves.
The developmental and line editing standard applied to every hybrid publishing project.
Common questions about hybrid publishing.
Self-publishing means you handle or hire out each piece individually. Hybrid publishing bundles the same kind of editorial, design, and distribution work under one process with professional standards applied throughout, while you still fund the project and keep the rights and royalties.
A traditional deal typically pays you an advance but takes ownership of rights and pays lower royalties over time. Hybrid publishing has you fund the project, but you keep the rights, earn a higher royalty share, and retain creative control over editing, cover design, and how the book is positioned.
It's scoped to your manuscript rather than fixed, but typically includes developmental and line editing, cover design, interior formatting, ISBN registration, and distribution to major retailers. We'll put together a specific scope once we understand your book.
From the Pen & Laurel blog.
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Tell us about your manuscript and we'll scope out what a hybrid publishing path would look like for your book.