Absolutely! We love to meet our authors, and many travel to Washington State to meet our staff. If you would like to visit us, please be sure to set up an appointment through our site.

Yes! Call or email us to arrange an informal visit and meet your Publishing Consultant and other staff.

We have scores of authors who are happy to communicate with potential authors and tell them about their experience with Redemption Press. If you’d like, ask us for a reference. You may also want to review these blog posts where authors tell their Redemption Press stories:

Sheryl Giesbrecht Turner

Dr. Eric Odell-Hein, Ph.D.

Also, we have an A+ rating from the BBB. Here’s a link to our profile with reviews.

Redemption Press was founded in January 2014 by Athena Dean Holtz, the pioneer of the independent publishing movement in the Christian market. She originally co-founded WinePress Publishing back in 1991, paving the way for credibility in self-publishing. Unfortunately, the company eventually closed after falling into the hands of a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing.

That story is told in Athena’s memoir, Full Circle: Coming Home to the Faithfulness of God, and the book is offered for free to authors considering publishing with us. Redemption Press is firmly in the hands of a solidly experienced and professional leadership and strives to be the best at what we do for the glory of God. We are accountable to Him for the honesty, integrity, and quality of our work.

Absolutely. We are proud of our work and happy to send a sample. Just give us a call or send us an email, and we’ll have a book sent to you.

Although this is one of the most commonly asked questions, it is difficult to answer because every project is unique.

For books that have already been in print and are not undergoing any changes other than a new ISBN and publisher name, the average turnaround time is between four and eight weeks. For books that include editing, illustrations, special formatting, or other non-standard work, the timeline will be extended. A normal turnaround time with editing and formatting runs from six to eight months depending on a variety of issues.

Redemption Press is not a “fast food” publisher. We never compromise on quality for the sake of speed. If you want to speed things up, however, a quality-controlled, fast-track option may be available.

The quality of your finished book will appear similar to, if not better than, what you would expect to find in any bookstore or library. For trim sizes of 6″ x 9″ and smaller, the text stock used is 50# crème, and for trim sizes larger than 6″ x 9″, the text stock used is 50# white only.

Your cover is printed on a high-quality laminated cover stock, with a matte or gloss finish, in vivid colors. Please call us if you are interested in receiving samples.

Once your book has been edited, formatted, approved, and processed by the printer, you may order copies through our offices. Your books will normally ship five business days from the time you place your order. Bear in mind that color picture books and hardcovers take a few days longer, and orders over 250 copies will also take additional time to produce. Normal turnaround for an order is 10-14 days including shipping time.

As a hybrid publisher, we are your partner in publishing. You get the best of traditional and print-on-demand publishing services, including personal support and custom publishing packages designed to meet your specific needs.

What most people don’t realize is that a traditional publisher usually takes up to two years to publish a book, and the author is involved in the process to some degree, but has no control whatsoever.

Because we are your partner, we walk you through the entire process, and you have much more control and input than with a traditional publisher. Perhaps most importantly, you retain all rights to your book when you publish through us (see below).

We are a hybrid publisher, not merely a print-on-demand publisher. That means, we are not simply printing your book, we are publishing it—offering services such as multiple levels of editing, formatting, cover design, coaching, marketing, publicity, and distribution.

We offer three publishing imprints with varying levels of services, so authors may select the services which best meet their needs, with the guidance of professionals in the Christian publishing industry.

Yes, we offer a complete range of publicity and marketing services, and we’ve recently significantly improved them! Please speak with one of our publishing consultants about which PR and marketing services are currently offered. Because the publishing world changes so quickly, we adapt to stay current on what’s working today.

Yes. However, creating indexes is time-consuming and complicated work, and there is an additional charge for this. To keep the cost to a minimum, we recommend that you create your own index during the last phase of your publishing process. This has the advantage of greatly reducing your cost and ensuring that you get exactly the items you want included in your index.

Yes. Author-requested changes are free if the correction is deemed to be a typesetting or formatting error. However, because of the time involved for our staff, there are standard fees for all other changes after your book has been typeset. To help avoid such fees, we provide you with ample time once the editing process is complete, so you can make all necessary changes to your manuscript before typesetting.

Absolutely. We have authors from many different countries. However, except for those authors residing in the UK, non-U.S. authors will have to pay a little extra to have their books and other printed material shipped to them.

We have published books in Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, and German. Due to the complex issues that arise with foreign language fonts and formatting, there is an extra charge for books published in languages other than English or Spanish.

We offer three imprints, as discussed above, one of which will address your publishing needs.

You will notice that certain benefits are only offered to authors who choose the more rigorous levels of editing required with the Redemption Press imprint because we believe that all books benefit from—and need—editing.

Don’t worry, many of our staff are writers themselves so we understand this can be a sensitive area! However, we are obligated to give you the very best advice we can, and so we need to emphasize the huge benefits that the editing process offers. Once they see how quality editing raises the quality of their books, most authors are grateful for this gentle, yet honest, approach. Books that are published, and not simply printed, need to be edited.

We want to provide you with a book that you are proud to hand to your ministry, family, and friends.

Yes. A link to our publishing agreement is at the bottom of each page on our website; anyone can review it before contacting us and we’re happy to explain the details.

Yes. You retain all rights to your book(s) when you work with us, and you are free to print your book with other publishers at any time. If you choose to contract with another publisher after publishing the same book with us, that publisher might have restrictions, though we will not. Please discuss this with any future publishing partners.

Distributors require the right to sell your book for one year after the publication date. You may take your book out of print any time after that. Even if you sell the rights to your book to another publisher within the first year, it will take them longer than that to get your book printed, so it shouldn’t be a conflict.

No. You simply tell your readers where to purchase them and leave everything else to us.

If you want to purchase copies of your own book—to take to a speaking engagement or some other function, for example—you will receive a significant discount depending on how many you purchase. To get an author discount, the minimum order is only five books.

Yes. From a theological viewpoint, we might be considered Bible-based, following the Apostles’ Creed as a framework for acceptable doctrine. We publish a wide spectrum of material for Christian authors but do not publish for authors adhering to Mormon (LDS) or Jehovah’s Witness doctrine or espousing new age spirituality. We also have taken a stand on what we will and will not publish regarding homosexuality. Click here to view that statement on our website. Our imprints address the level of editing a must book undergo.

Redemption Press owns the ISBN numbers. We know how important it is to provide each of our authors’ books with an ISBN number, so we purchase large blocks of numbers to make the process as smooth as possible. Why is this a good thing for you? Because anyone looking for your book will be able to order it by ISBN number from us or almost any bookstore.

Some people mistakenly suggest that whoever owns the ISBN also owns the rights to your book. This is false. We own the ISBN purely as a convenience for our authors, and you retain the rights to your book.

You do. The “rights” to a book implies ownership. When printing with Redemption Press, YOU own all the rights to your book. A contract with a traditional publisher will usually involve you relinquishing rights of your book to the publisher, freeing the publisher to alter, price, promote, and package your book as he/she sees fit. Some print-on-demand publishers also retain the rights to your book, restricting you from future opportunities.

Yes. The copyright registration will be in your name. The copyright submission is made on the date of publication to ensure that your completed project is covered. You will be billed separately for all associated fees, so they are easy to track.

Yes. Libraries can order through the major distributors we work with.

You do. Retail prices are subject to change as market conditions and costs warrant, and you can set those new prices.

Yes. To better serve our authors in the marketplace, we mark our just-in-time manufactured books as “returnable.” Without this capability, major distributors and bookstores will not even handle a book. However, as books are printed on-demand to fulfill each order with no provision for warehousing, this means any royalties and printing costs paid for books that are subsequently returned must be deducted from the author’s account.

We believe that making our books returnable provides a considerable benefit to our authors. However, an author may request in writing to opt out of this advantageous arrangement.