Ingenium Books Publishing
We empower, enlighten, and enrich people's lives by creating and publishing outstanding, award-winning nonfiction that women love to write and read.
Ingenium Books Publishing
We empower, enlighten, and enrich people's lives by creating and publishing outstanding nonfiction that women love to write and read.
What We Do
at Ingenium Books
We empower, enlighten, and enrich people's lives by creating and publishing outstanding and award-winning nonfiction that women love to write and read. Ingenium Books is a hybrid publisher specializing in nonfiction books.
We solicit, select, vet, curate, and publish outstanding and award-winning nonfiction. We are particularly interested in memoir.
We partner with authors who already have a solid nonfiction manuscript ready for publishing. We help other authors develop their ideas and turn them into a solid manuscript that is ready to publish. And we produce and publish audiobooks.
With Ingenium Books,
it's all about the book.
What's Your Publishing Personality?
Take our PUBLISHING QUIZ and see which publishing model (traditional, hybrid, self-publishing) is best for YOU
HYBRID PUBLISHING
We specialize in nonfiction partnership publishing, or hybrid publishing. It's an empowering alternative to both traditional publishing and self-publishing approaches. Not writing nonfiction? No problem. Let's talk.
AUTHOR SERVICES
Author coaching and editing services — manuscript assessments, developmental editing, copy editing — when your manuscript isn't quite ready to publish. We breathe life into your ideas and help you become publish-ready.
AUDIOBOOKS
Storytelling and sound. Our two specialties. Be sure your book is positioned to capture a piece of the fastest-growing segment of the book sales market: audiobooks.
Business
Self-Help
Memoir
Journalistic
The Ingenium Books Publishing Model
At Ingenium Books, we vet and curate incoming submissions just like a traditional publisher does. If we accept your manuscript and it is ready to go, our hybrid or partnership publishing model means a joint investment in bringing your book to market — and getting attention for it once it is out there.
When you do well, we do well, and vice versa.
You’ll invest in your project up front and receive a much larger share of royalties than you would under a traditional publishing contract: 60 percent on net receipts across all formats, including, if relevant, film, tv, or broadcast licensing. Your book gets professional treatment throughout the publishing process, including during the launch and sale periods so you don’t have to go it alone.
You might even become an author of award-winning nonfiction!
Not all book publishers provide
intensive, customized, and personal support.
At Ingenium Books, we do.
"From the first video call, I knew you were the right partners for me. Your leadership through the process, guidance, teaching, and recommendations made me feel supported and pushed in the best possible way."
Lisa King
Just Do You
"Thank you for investing yourself in my work. Throughout this whole process, I have never felt stranded or lost, because you steered me through every decision and answered every question."
Tanya Hackney
Leaving the Safe Harbor
"You went way beyond what I was expecting. I'm patting myself on the back for trusting my gut instinct from our first call. You helped take my book from good to great."
Jamie Sussel-Turner
Less Stress Life
"Do YOU have a dream receiving endorsements from Harvard University, Stanford University, and others, because your book is GREAT!? I had — and thanks to Ingenium Books — my dream came true."
Henrik J. Mondrup
Achieving Change
Ingenium Books' authors enjoy the best of both worlds: they are collaborative, entrepreneurial partners who benefit from greater creative control and a larger share of royalties than they'd get with traditional publishing. That, along with endorsements, pre-sales, distribution, and ongoing project management — long after their book is published — make ours a highly desirable publishing approach.
Ingenium Books' authors enjoy the best of both worlds: they are collaborative, entrepreneurial partners who benefit from greater creative control and a larger share of royalties than they'd get with traditional publishing. That, along with endorsements, pre-sales, distribution, and ongoing project management and marketing support — long after their book is published — make ours a highly desirable publishing approach.
Our Publishing Package
We may work with several nonfiction genres but at Ingenium Books we only have one publishing package: it includes everything to transform your manuscript into a professionally published masterpiece. Not every book can become a piece of award-winning nonfiction, but every book can be award-worthy.
Final proofread of your manuscript
Cover design brief and custom cover design
Interior design and layout
(if your manuscript is >80,000 words you may need to work with an editor to reduce)
Preparation of files for paperback and ebook file conversion
(Large print, hardcover, audiobook optional but not included in the package)
Management of all title metadata
Assignment of Ingenium Books ISBN and copyright registration
Distribution management to more than 39,000 global retailers and libraries and eBook uploading to more than 120 e-retailers like Kobo, Kindle, iTunes, and Nook
Print short-run warehousing and fulfilment options available
Author copies at approximately 50-60% of retail
(author or consumer pays shipping)
Reviews strategy, including structure and process for endorsement reviews
Distribution management to more than 39,000 global retailers and libraries and eBook uploading to more than 120 e-retailers like Kobo, Kindle, iTunes, and Nook
Guidance, support, and partnering on launch marketing activities
Dedicated author page on the Ingenium Books website with your own unique URL
Standard social media promotion schedule for you and your book, with optional scalable packages to add on
We manage your book project for the life of your title
You don’t need to become a publishing expert.
You just need one in your corner.
What Happens After I Submit My Manuscript?
We treat your manuscript submission confidentially, of course. Once you submit your manuscript (actually, the first twenty pages), and answer a few questions which help us understand more about your book and you as the author, we'll do a thorough review. The first thing we check is which of the nonfiction genres we publish does your manuscript fit into? Business? Memoir? Self-help? Journalistic nonfiction, such as true crime? (There are other types of nonfiction, but we don't publish them all.)
We aim to get back to you within sixty days, or sooner. We'll tell you which of the following four possible paths your manuscript would be suited for.
Four Possible Paths
for Your Nonfiction Manuscript
Author Investment
Author Investment
If your manuscript is accepted after the submission review process, your investment is $6900, usually in four equal monthly payments.
If your manuscript is accepted after the Ingenium Books submission review process, your investment is $7999, usually in five equal monthly payments.
$1600/5mo
$7.9k* total
*prices in USD
Author Services
Authors always need professional help when readying their manuscripts for publishing. Whether you're responding to feedback from our submission process or you want to put your best foot forward when you do submit, we can provide you with author services. Manuscript assessment, author coaching, developmental editing, copy editing. Ask us about a custom solution to address the specific needs of your nonfiction book.
Our Manuscript Wish List #mswl
Ingenium Books is actively seeking manuscripts in the following nonfiction genres.
JOURNALISTIC NONFICTION
BUSINESS
SELF-HELP
MEMOIR
What is Hybrid Publishing?
Hybrid publishing is just what it sounds like: a cross between traditional publishing and self-publishing. It’s independent publishing at its best. Your manuscript is subject to vetting for quality, just like it would be under a traditional publishing arrangement. We select only those manuscripts that we feel have a clear audience, message, a solid story, and, of course, potential.
IBPA's Hybrid Publisher Criteria
The Independent Book Publishers' Association (we're a proud IBPA member) has developed a list of criteria for hybrid publishers:
Read more about the IBPA's Hybrid Publisher Criteria here.
What's the Difference Between Hybrid Publishing,
Self-Publishing, and a Vanity Press?
A vanity press will take an author’s money no matter the quality or saleability of the work, and after publishing you’ll likely not hear from them again unless you’re trying to buy more of your books from them.
Self-publishing is when you write, publish, distribute, and market your book entirely on your own: a big learning curve that may be a satisfying journey or leave you exhausted and frustrated.
Hybrid publishing is just what it sounds like: a cross between traditional publishing and self-publishing. It’s independent publishing at its best.
- Your manuscript is subject to vetting for quality, just like it would be under a traditional publishing arrangement.
- Your book gets the professional treatment throughout the publishing process, including during the launch and sale periods so you don’t have to go it alone.
- If you and your manuscript submission are accepted, you’ll pay for part of the publishing and production costs and we’ll bring our nonfiction publishing skills and experience to produce and publish the most outstanding version of your book possible.
Ready to Publish Your Book?
Priceless.
Ingenium Books Publishing Inc.
2967 Dundas St. W. Unit 278
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6P 1Z2
