Private publishing

We want Nepal to think more deeply, write more and give thoughtful voices the respect they deserve. Your book is part of that work. We take on few authors so we can give the ideas, sentences and decisions in each book the attention they need.

If you want support with the idea, the writing, the design and the public life of your book, we can talk through the options with you. We will help you understand what that support includes, what it costs and whether it fits what you want to make.

What “private” means

• Few books at a time, so an editor’s week is not a queue with your name at the back.
• A dedicated path from conversation to colophon — not a shared template with your title dropped in.
• Confidentiality as a default. Your unpublished pages are not a marketing story.
• A proposal written for this book, not a PDF of three packages.

The full path

People arrive at different points. Some have a sentence. Some have a trunk of notes. Some have a manuscript that has been rewritten twice and still is not a book. The path is the same apparatus, entered at the right door:

• Thinking — what the book is for, who it is for, what it must not pretend to be.
• Writing — including manuscript development and ghostwriting when the substance is yours and the hours are not.
• Editing — structure, language, proof. In Nepali, in English, or both.
• Design and pre-press — the interior, the cover, the files a press can actually print.
• ISBN as publisher of record, printing, and the boring bibliographic work that makes a book findable.
• Distribution through the channels we actually use.
• A campaign: a public introduction with claims we can show, not a burst of unpaid enthusiasm.

Who this is for

You may be a writer shaping a first book, a poet ready to share your work, a scholar developing an argument or a family preserving a story. You may have tried to do this alone. We can explore what the book needs and agree a level of support that makes sense for you.

Academic work can follow this path too. Tell us about any university requirements and ask for the current supporting documents before choosing a publisher.

What we will not do

• Invent an ISBN, a review, an award, a sales figure or a ranking.
• Put a number on this page that pretends to be your quote.
• Publish a book we cannot stand behind because the fee arrived.
• Pretend a printed file is the same as a published book.

How to begin

The submission is Start a book. That form is how work enters the house. Email sammanpublishinghouse@gmail.com if you have a question the application cannot hold — a confidential constraint, a date, a rights issue. We can help you prepare the application before you share the manuscript.

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