We publish your book the way we publish our own.
Zen Books is a small press run by a scientist and author. We edit, verify, design and publish nonfiction in English and Spanish, under our own imprint and ISBNs. You keep every right and every dollar your book earns.
Every manuscript starts with a reading report. From $350, deducted from any package.
Four things that are true here
A scientist reads your manuscript.
Your editor is a molecular biologist with postgraduate training in biomedicine and neuroscience, a PhD in social sciences and seven published books. We check what your book claims and ask for the sources.
You keep everything.
Rights, royalties, files and sales accounts stay in your name. We charge for the work, not for the book.
This is an imprint, not a platform.
Your book carries the Zen Books name and ISBN and sits in our catalog next to ours. That is why we do not publish everything we receive.
Two languages from the same desk.
English and Spanish editions edited and published together, with German and Italian available by quote.
Three ways to work with us
Your finished manuscript, professionally produced and published.
What is included →Developmental editing, production, publication and a reader funnel to launch with.
What is included →Your published book, translated and released in a second market.
What is included →You send the manuscript. We read it and send you a report. If we are the right press for the book, we agree on a package, a calendar and a price. Then we make the book.
From first line to published book
Three short guides for nonfiction authors: what to decide before you write, how to write with rigor, and how to take the manuscript to a published book without overpaying.
Nonfiction that can be checked. Books that look like books. An editor who answers his own email.
Send your manuscript