About Us

Longmarch Press is committed to readers and authors who haven’t been well-served by the Establishment. If you’re seeking yet another delicate memoir hand-crafted to accompany Chardonnay at Tuesday’s book club, you’re in the wrong place.

We aim for writing that cuts across the grain. We’re proudly independent: We’re not trying to gin up cookie-cutter best-sellers— and, yes, we know that’s three conflicting food metaphors in the last two sentences. We don’t care.

We’re not focused on the next quarterly earnings report, and we’re not a subset of any conglomerate which has to silence inconvenient voices in the interest of corporate profits.

This lets us focus on the authors— and a focus on authors means a focus on readers.

At all of the Establishment publishers, everyone gets paid except the writer:

• Executives get paid a fortune

• Editors get paid very handsomely

• The rest of the staff get paid a living wage

• And the writers (except those named Grisham or Rowling) get paid almost nothing.

  That’s great for the suits— but not for anyone else. And it helps explain why all the output reads as if it were generated by the same AI bot.

Our model is different: Our authors retain full rights to their work, rather than signing it away to the publisher. We keep prices of books extremely low, to enable authors to reach more readers and readers to reach more authors. (Know how much that $40 mainstream-press book costs to produce? About one-tenth its cover price. Think about that),

We do it by keeping our overhead costs very low: No advertising, no media blitzes, no lunches at Per Se, and (as you may have noticed) no competent web design.

Our editorial staff are doing this as a labor of love.