Plain answers, before you ask.

It depends which lane your book is in, and we tell you plainly before anything is signed. In the selective/traditional lane, no — we carry every cost and pay you royalties; if we say yes to your book there, you pay us nothing, ever. In the author-services lane, you commission the work with a written, itemised quote and you keep your rights and your royalties.

In the author-services lane, yes — copyright stays in your name, always. In the traditional lane, we license the rights for a defined term with a reversion clause, so the book comes back to you if we stop doing our job. Either way, the terms are in the agreement in plain language before you sign.

Traditional-lane authors are paid royalties on a stated schedule with statements you can audit — the rates and dates are in your agreement, not in fine print. Author-services authors keep their retail royalties, because the book is theirs. What we will never do is promise you sales figures; no honest publisher can.

Yes — pricing is set together, within the realities of print costs and what comparable books sell for. The final numbers are part of your written plan, not a surprise on release day.

It depends on the state of the manuscript, which is why we do not promise a blanket number. A finished, well-edited manuscript typically moves through editing, cover design, interior typesetting and proofs in a few months; a first draft needs longer. Your written quote comes with a schedule for your book, and you will know where it stands at every stage.

No — and you would not want us to. Every book we publish gets real editing, and if a manuscript is not ready we will say so and tell you what it needs, even in the lane where you are paying. Publishing an unready book because the author offered to pay for it is exactly the practice this imprint exists to avoid.

We will look at them honestly. If they meet print standards and you hold the rights to them, we can use them; if they will hurt the book, we will tell you why and show you what we would do instead. Nothing gets swapped without your agreement.

Anything under someone else's copyright needs permission before it goes to print — song lyrics especially, which are aggressively enforced. Securing permissions is the author's responsibility, but we flag what needs clearing during editing so nothing surprises you at the end.

OBN Publishing titles are distributed through Amazon (KDP), IngramSpark — which makes a book orderable by tens of thousands of bookstores and libraries — and Draft2Digital for the wider ebook retailers, alongside direct sales through OBN itself. Print and ebook editions are set up together.

Yes. Every OBN Publishing edition carries its own ISBN with the imprint as publisher of record, registered properly — one for each format, which is how retailers and libraries expect it.

Both, and we are honest about the split. The imprint puts the network behind the launch: on-air interview opportunities, features in the OBN apps, and newsletter placement — reach no ordinary publisher can offer. Personal appearances, book signings and your own audience are yours to build, and books succeed best when the author works theirs. What we will never do is promise a bestseller.

Through the form on this site — start with your name, the book, and a few honest paragraphs about it. We are currently reading by invitation while our first title is in production, so the form does not promise a response time; it is how we get to know work we may be able to publish as the list opens.