Put your story in print.
Set in type, printed, bound, and put on sale under your own name. You keep the rights and the money. Telephone and ask.
The first book to carry this imprint
Ethan’s Promise Land: Horses, Soldiers, and Spotted Cattle
A novel about an old rancher who is put in a nursing home after a horse falls on him, walks out one rainy night, and goes home to fight for his farm.
Written on a farm in Middle Tennessee. Bringing it into print was done in several passes, and what was learned in each is what this house now offers.
Buy the paperback on Amazon.
Buy the Kindle edition on Amazon.
Look inside it
The real pages, from the file the printer works from. Turn them.
Print one page at its true size, to hold in your own light.
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Page 1 The title page -
Page 2 The copyright page -
Page 3 The contents -
Page 5 The epigraph -
Page 7 The dedication -
Page 13 The prologue opens -
Page 14 A page of the story -
Page 23 Chapter one opens -
Page 24 A page of the story
What happens to your book
Seven steps, in order. Touch one.
- You telephone, or send the cover sheet. Typed, printed, or in your own hand; sent from here or posted with the pages.
- One person reads the whole book. Every word, before anything is agreed. No charge.
- An agreement comes by post. The price is on it. Signed with a pen, sent back with the first payment.
- The pages are set in type. Mistakes found in the reading come back to you as a numbered list.
- You say yes to the pages. Two rounds of changes included. Nothing is rewritten.
- A printed copy is checked by hand, then posted to you to hold before anyone can buy it.
- The book goes on sale under your name. Every file comes to you to keep. The shops pay you directly.
About eight weeks from the signed agreement when the queue is clear.
Not done here
No cover artwork.
You bring the picture; the press makes certain it prints. If you have not got one, telephone: the office will say what works on a cover, and what having one made is likely to cost.
No rewriting.
No line edit, no copyedit, no advice on the story. The book stays in your words.
We don’t take any of your earnings.
The shops pay you directly. The press sends one bill for its work.
No promises about readers.
Nobody can make one honestly.
No monthly charges.
One bill for the work, paid in the three parts set out above, and nothing after it. The accounts stay yours.
Your book, as it would be
Put in the name of the book and how long it is. Add the cover picture if you have one. The picture stays on this device.
Write to the office
What you send goes into one list that only this office reads. It is not sold, not shared, and not sent anywhere else. There is no tracking on this site and no advertising in it. Ask and it is deleted.
How to begin
Telephone
Outside the hours above it is an answering machine, and the call comes back on the next evening the telephone is answered.
Or send the pages
Telephone first. The address is given on the call, so that nothing arrives the office is not expecting.
Typed, printed, or written out by hand. The office telephones when the pages arrive. Originals are returned insured.
The cover sheet can be filled in here and sent, or printed and posted on top of the pages.
About the company
Bar Five Rafter Publishing Co. is a book publisher in Wilson County, Tennessee. The company takes a few titles at a time and gives each the same hand: one person reads the manuscript, sets the type, and checks the printed proof.
Service is Tennessee-based and direct. The telephone is answered by the person doing the work; manuscripts are accepted by post; the agreement is on paper; and every file belongs to the author, from the first day to the last.
The name is a cattle brand before it is a colophon. A rafter over a five over a bar, registered in this county and burned on the right hip.
The cover painting is sold as a print by the painter.