Two editors, six books a year, one room
Small on purpose. Six titles a year is the most two people can edit line by line, and line by line is the only kind of editing worth paying for.
Epilogue was started in 2016 by two editors who had both left larger houses in the same year, for the same reason: a list of forty titles a year cannot be edited, only processed.
We publish six. Each one is read aloud in full before it goes to print, which sounds like an affectation and catches more than any other stage of the process. Forty-one titles are in print. Nine have earned back what they cost and the rest are carried by those nine, which is how publishing has always worked and is rarely said out loud.
Authors are paid half the cover price, quarterly, whether or not the title has earned out. Nobody here is on a percentage of net receipts, because net receipts is a number the publisher controls and the writer cannot audit.
- 2016
- 41
- 50%
- 6
What readers say
Read all the reviewsThe first paragraph is on the site instead of a blurb. That sold me.
Half the cover price to the author, printed on the page. Extraordinary.
Eight weeks and a real reply, with two paragraphs about my manuscript.
Six books a year means long waits between titles. Worth it.
A letter when there is a book, and silence when there is not