About Us
A small press with strong opinions.
Bradbury Publishers began with a simple irritation: too many good manuscripts were being treated like transactions. We built the press we'd want to publish with.
Why we exist
In 2013 our founder, an editor who had spent a decade inside larger New York houses, kept meeting the same writer: talented, committed, and completely alone. Big publishers wanted a guaranteed bestseller. Vanity presses wanted a check. Nobody wanted to sit down and ask, “What does this book actually need?”
So we built Bradbury Publishers around that question. We're an independent, author-friendly house serving writers in all 50 states — from first-time novelists in Ohio to executives in New York and memoirists in Texas. We'll tell you honestly if your manuscript isn't ready — and then we'll help you get it there. We'll tell you when a service you asked for is the wrong one. We'll never charge for a quote, and we'll never pretend a bestseller can be promised.
What we can promise: careful editing to The Chicago Manual of Style, design that respects your genre, printing and distribution that works on Amazon, Ingram and Barnes & Noble, and a human being who answers your emails — usually within one business day. Your name goes on the cover. Your rights stay with you. That's the whole philosophy, and it hasn't changed in over a decade.
1,200+
Books published
900+
US authors served
14
In-house editors
96%
Authors who return
Kind words from American authors
Authors who became friends
“They treated my memoir like it mattered. Twenty-two years of notes became a book my family will keep forever.”
Eleanor W.
Memoir, Austin, TX
“The new cover doubled my Amazon click-through in a week. But the editing notes made me a better writer.”
Marcus T.
Thriller, Chicago, IL
“Manuscript to Audible in four months. Every deadline met, every promise kept — with weekly numbers I could actually read.”
Priya S.
Business, New York, NY
Your book deserves a fair launch
Tell us where you are — an idea, a draft, or a finished manuscript — and we'll map the shortest honest route to published.