One major benefit of publishing with SWP or SP is the fact that we’re a curated press. We vet our submissions, and the impact is paying off. We secured traditional distribution through  Simon & Schuster because of the quality of our books. With SWP and SP, you now have a sales force that’s working to sell your book to the book trade. Your book will be available to any and all retail outlets that want to carry your book, as well as to libraries and other specialty markets.

Our covers rival our traditional counterparts, and our well-edited books are recognized throughout the industry as meeting a traditional-level standard, evidenced by the fact that we qualify to submit our books through traditional review channels (like Publishers Weekly and Kirkus) rather than through their self-publishing offshoots. When you publish through LSI or CreateSpace, you are the publisher and you do all the work yourself. You hire and manage your team, and you really should have some book publishing experience in order to ensure all the pieces come together properly. (Read Brooke’s post about how SWP is different from CreateSpace.) At SWP and SP, you’ll have a direct relationship with the publisher, Brooke Warner, and your project manager. Our creative team, led by Creative Director Julie Metz, makes sure your book has a commercial appeal, and that it will hold up against the competition. Every part of your book will follow book-publishing conventions, and there will not be anything that goes overlooked.

We are also different from Author Solutions imprints because we provide much more hand-holding. We are a team and a community who cares about the books we’re publishing, their quality, and their impact on readers. This is not a mill. It’s a sisterhood. It’s an extension of She Writes, whose members include Francine Prose, Roxana Robinson, Kathryn Harrison, Maggie Gee, Bernice McFadden, Tayari Jones, Judith Warner, Amy Sohn, and many more.

We also provide warehousing (free through the first year of publication) and fulfillment for our printed books, a service not offered by other companies. If you think you can sell 500+ books in one year, you want to do a print-run, and you’ll earn the money invested in your project after that run sells through.