We know how difficult the process can be and want to offer our support. We think authors need to be in control of their books, their creations.
At City Stone Publishing, we offer a personalised service designed to bring out the best of your writing potential in ways that suit you as a writer.
Whether you’re after the full publishing package, or just some support in one area to complement your activities, we have a range of options that will meet your needs.
Read more about the services we offer to get your book published.
No, we at City Stone Publishing do NOT charge you any submission fee.
After initial contact, we will ask you to submit the first three chapters with a synopsis of your manuscript.
We will ALWAYS respond to submissions and will endeavour to give detailed feedback so you will know exactly where you are at with us.
No. You are welcome to send usa brief synopsis and the first three chapters of your book.
We do not charge for considering submissions and will respond to all submissions we receive.
Unless we decide to take your book forward for publication, we will not charge you for any service.
No. We know how challenging the publishing industry is; at City Stone Publishing we are passionate about great fiction and non-fiction and helping independent authors on their publishing journey.
However, we will not publish anything that does not meet our strict editorial quality standards.
Yes, we charge for our services. That is because, contrary to other publishing models, we do NOT take any royalties.
If your manuscript meets our quality standards, your book will be eligible to be published under the City Stone Publishing umbrella. You keep full ownership of your book and you receive all the profits.
If you opt for our assisted-publishing package, you pay a fee for our services and all royalties from any sales of your book go to you, the author. Bear in mind though that publishing platforms will take a percentage of sales.
The author is responsible for any contract and consequent fees from any literary agent they engage; to work with City Stone Publishing, you do not need a literary agent.
We do not take royalties as a condition of working with us and publishing your book with City Stone Publishing through the assisted-publishing route.
If you publish with us, the traditional way, we publish your books where you receive regular sales updates and royalty payments.
At City Stone Publishing we do not strive to take away your copyright or ownership.
Subject to our editorial quality standards, as a minimum, we offer the use of our name as the publisher and an ISBN, as well as book page composition.
Depending on your needs we offer a wide and flexible range of services to publish your book.
For more info, see our publishing page. You can also go straight to our assisted-publishing page or traditional publishing page and see what we offer independent authors.
Regardless of whether you obtain your own ISBN or have a City Stone Publishing ISBN, your book content remains yours when using our assisted-publishing package.
You retain your rights, authorship, and copyright ownership; all City Stone Publishing does is offer services and help you publish your book – we support you but do not take anything away from you.
If you go the traditional publishing route then we will own the copyright of our book. We take all the work out of your hands – we publish your book and you receive quarterly updates about sales and royalty payments.
We know publishing is just one step to becoming a successful author and that marketing and promotion are also needed.
While City Stone Publishing currently doesn’t offer marketing packages itself, we do provide author branding (including social media), and website creation services. Check out our Website & Author Branding page for more info.
For marketing services, we partner with experts across the world and will be happy to put you in touch with our colleagues to discuss your needs.
For book-related promotion as part of our traditional-publishing route, we are in contact with (book) bloggers, reviewers, magazines and more to bring your book under the attention of a wide audience.
Whilst we agree with Neil Gaiman about the freedom of speech, we at City Stone Publishing reserve the right to not publish anything that in our eyes brings any harm to others, incites dehumanisation, or evokes behaviour that in our eyes is reproachable or hugely offensive.
Any questions? Please, check out our Disclaimer or contact us.
Once your book is published through our assisted-publishing route, you have full ownership of how and where it is stocked and distributed.
If City Stone Publishing is contacted by a retailer, we will direct them to the author.
We do not charge for doing so, nor do we take any commission on sales from retail agreements agreed by the author.
If we publish your book traditionally, we will receive our part of the royalties, you will receive quarterly royalty payments and sales reports.
The author retains full control of their work at all times.
We know publishing is just one step to becoming a successful author and that marketing and promotion are also needed.
While City Stone Publishing currently doesn’t offer marketing packages itself, we do provide author branding (including social media), and website creation services. Do check out our Website & Author Branding page for more info.
For marketing services, we partner with experts across the world and will be happy to put you in touch with our colleagues to discuss your needs.
Absolutely. While we would be delighted to have you publish with City Stone Publishing, we understand some authors may wish to publish elsewhere or self-publish.
Our commitment is still to help the author through their publishing journey.
To that end, we provide a flexible range of services without the commitment of publishing through us.
These services are available individually (such as editing and other editorial services or website design and author branding) or as part of our assisted-publishing package.
Absolutely. While we would be delighted to have you publish with City Stone Publishing, we understand some authors may wish to publish elsewhere or self-publish.
Our commitment is still to help the author through their publishing journey.
To that end, we provide a flexible range of services such as editing and other editorial services or website design and author branding)and more without the commitment of publishing through us.
These services are available individually or as part of our assisted-publishing package.