About Cambridge House Press

WHO WE ARE
Cambridge House Press is a traditional publisher bringing cutting-edge product to the marketplace, with an emphasis on sales and marketing (more about that below). Our titles are split about evenly between fiction and non-fiction, with most of our fiction titles posessing a contemporary marketing 'hook.' Our one literary, historical fiction title is based on a 500 year-old Daniel Dafoe legend that was the basis for the contemporary film The Hills Have Eyes. So even our historical fiction has a modern-day bent.

Some of our titles are controversial. Some are left-leaning. Some are right-leaning. Some are funny. Some are expository. We believe all are entertaining, educational or thought-provoking. And that is the basis for all our acquisitions. We don't try to advance a political agenda, a specific religion or a way of life. Our goal is to inform, entertain or provoke. And while we certainly appreciate publishers who bring 'worthy' works to market, we've made the decision that we're in business to publish books we believe will be read, and by the largest possible readership. In other words, we're in the business of selling books, not simply publishing them.

WHERE WE FIT IN
It is true that almost anyone can create a book, but it takes skill, persistence and stamina to actually sell one. The literary wasteland is heavily populated with great and valuable books that died on the vine because they were not given the proper publicity to achieve success.

If you are with a large publisher, and not deemed one of the top 15% of the “push-books” (books which are promoted because the publisher has spent a considerable amount of money to acquire them), the extent of your marketing is a press release-- period.

Fully 85% of any large publisher’s list is part of a ‘machine-gun’ approach—books published into a void with the ‘hope and pray’ attitude that something will happen that will make these books successful. Both The Lovely Bones and A Million Little Pieces were doing little in the marketplace until they were catapulted into the national consciousness (through forces other than the quality of the writing). Through these tremendous successes the large publishers who brought these books to market can now afford to publish 1500 other books that don’t sell. That is the nature of the business with larger publishers--strike out 1495 times, but thrive off 5 grand slams.

Smaller publishers, on the contrary, need every book to be a success. That’s why the majority of authors are actually better off with a small or medium sized publisher if they are seeking the greatest chance at selling their book. Sometimes authors look not for sales, but for another advantage supplied by the large publishers—for instance, the cachet of a certain imprint on the spine of their book.

At Cambridge House Press, every author is supplied their own publicist for the life of their project. That is something that few other houses can claim, regardless of size. If selling books is what interests you, and you have a compelling and commercial project, please contact us with your submission. Agent queries welcomed. Electronic queries are welcomed at submissions@camhousepress.com

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“If you’re looking for a publisher to publish your book into the ether, you’re well suited to pretty much any New York publisher, except Cambridge House Press. These guys don’t care about the Booker, or the Nobel Prize for literature, they care about publishing compelling, commercial books that sell! And they’re marketing geniuses to boot.”

- James Sheridan, The Pandora Prescription

“One of the cleverest ploys for marketing a book I’ve ever seen by a small, independent publisher. The marketing was nothing short of brilliant. Brilliant.”

-Sid Smith, Write and Publish Your Book

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