ITW Recognized Publishers

The following is a list of ITW-recognized publishers. If your publisher is not recognized by ITW and meets all ITW criteria for a commercial publisher, either you or they may apply to ITW for recognition.

To apply, please click and download the following application form. Once completed, mail it along with any additional requested information to:

ITW Publisher Application
P.O. Box 311
Eureka, CA 95502

Publisher_Questionnaire08.doc


Qualified Publishers are those which do not contractually obligate their authors to pay for such services as advertising, sales, marketing, editing, or promotion of their books. A qualified publisher would normally acquire rights to a publication because it is investing capital; undertaking marketing efforts with a sales and/or marketing force; and utilizing the sale of books as means of recouping capital outlays and realizing a profit.

There are varying means of accomplishing these goals. Qualified publishers invest in their authors in a variety of different and imaginative ways. In deciding whether a publisher is qualified, ITW may consider samples of the publisher's contracts with authors; whether and how the publisher pays advances; does the publisher charge fees to authors for any service; is there a sales force; the publisher's distribution practices, are the publisher's books reviewed in recognized publications; documented complaints against any publisher; and does the publisher expend money for marketing and advertising for either the author and/or the work. Again, no one factor is determinative, nor would the lack of one be fatal. Recognizing that good judgment and reasonableness should always govern, any and all determinations of whether a publisher is qualified will be made on a case-by-case basis.

With particular regard to self-published books, where there is no publisher beyond the author, any determination of the author being a qualified publisher shall be on a case-by-case basis and such factors as the work itself, the breadth of its marketing, the extent of its distribution, the editorial process, its sales, the author's personal history, reviews in recognized publications, and any other factor relevant to the particular situation may be considered in making such determination. Self published writers are not automatically excluded from being a qualified publisher, but they bear a higher burden to demonstrate their status.

Currently recognized publishers

Akashic Books

Alfred A. Gonzalez

Allen & Unwin

Alyson

Atria

Avalon Books

Avon Books

Baen Books

Baker Book House

Ballantine Books

Bancroft Press

Bantam Books

Bastei-Lubbe

Bella Books

BelleBooks

Berkley

Bethany House

Bleak House Books

Bloodletting Press 

Borders Books

Brava

Brilliance AudioBooks

Broadman & Holman

Cambridge University Press

Carroll & Graf

Casperian Books LLC

CDS Books

Cemetery Dance Publications

Chariot Victor

Chronicle Books

Citadel Press

Clocktower Books

Columbia University Press

Crossings Book Club

Crown Publishing Group

Dafina Books

Dailey Swan Publishing

Dark Sky Publishing

Deadly Ink Press

Delacorte

Dell

Dorchester Publishing

Double Storey

Doubleday

Down The Shore Publishing

DTV

Dundurn Group

Dutton

Earthling Publications

Echelon Press

ECW Press

Edizioni Lindau

Egmont USA

F+W Media

Fawcett

Five Star Publishing

Forge

G.P. Putnam's Sons

Genesis Press

Glass House Press

Grand Central Publishing

Granite Publishing & Distribution

Grove Atlantic

Hachette Livre Australia

Harbor House

Harcourt Trade Publishers

Hard Case Crime

Harlequin Books

HarperCollins

Harriman House

Harvest House

Hawk Publishing Group

Headline Books

HeartQuest

Heaven Lake Press

Henry Holt & Co.

High Country Publishers

Hodder Headline

Houghton Mifflin Company

Howard Publishing

HQN Books

Human & Rousseau

Hyperion

iBooks

Intrigue Press

Jacana

Joggling Board Press

Jonathan Ball

Jove

Juno Books

Justin, Charles & Co.

Kensington Publishing Corp.

Kunati Inc.

Kwela

LAPA

LBF Books

Leisure

Literary Guild/ Doubleday Book Club

Little, Brown & Co. Llewellyn

Loveland Press

LUNA

Lyle Stuart

MacAdam/Cage

Macmillan

Marebuch

McBooks Press

Medallion Press

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

Midnight Ink

Mills & Boon LTD

MIRA Books

Morrow

Multnomah Publishing Inc.

Mynx

Mysterious Press

NAL

Naval Institute Press

Norstedts

Oceanview Publishing

Onyx

Orion Books

Other Press

Overmountain Press

Palisades Publishers

Pan Macmillan

PaperJacks

Penguin/Putnam

Per Aspera

Permuted Press

Perseverance Press

Pinnacle Books

Pocket Books

Poisoned Pen Press

Polygon Publishers

Prisma

Protea Boekhuis

Random House

Realms Fiction

Red Dress Ink

Revell Publishing

River City Publishing

Robert Hale Ltd

Robot Binaries & Press Corp.

Samhain Publishing, Ltd.

SANDS Publishing

Scholastic

Serpent's Tail

Seven Locks Press

Severn House

Shaye Areheart Books

Shuter & Shooter

Signet

Silhouette Books

Simon & Schuster

Soho Crime

Soho Press

Sourcebooks

Spectra Books

St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Minotaur

STE Publishers

Steeple Hill

Strang Communications

Tafelberg

Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Thorndike Press

Three Rivers Press

Thriller Publishing, Inc.

Tor

TotalRecall Publications

Transworld Publishers

Twenty First Century

Twin Streams

Two Dogs

Tyndale House

UglyTown

Ullstein

Umuzi-Random House SA

University of New Mexico Press

Variance LLC

Viking

Virtual Tales

W Publishing Group

Walker & Company

WaterBrook Press

Weltbild

WestBow Press

Yale University Press

YMAA Publication Center

Zebra

Zondervan


 

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Patrons (Actives)
Clive Cussler*
Dirk Cussler*
Faye and Jonathan Kellerman*
John Lescroart*
Karin Slaughter


Sponsors (Actives)
Kathleen Antrim*
David Baldacci*
Steve Berry*
Gary Braver*
Sandra Brown*
Dale Brown*
John Case*
Lee Child*
Glenn Cooper
Richard Curtis*
Jack F. Du Brul*
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Joseph Finder*
Brian Garfield*
Tess Gerritsen*
Leslie Glass*
Vicki Hinze*

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Alex Kava*
Deborah LeBlanc
Eric Van Lustbader*
D.P. Lyle, M.D.*
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Brad Meltzer
David Morrell*
Katherine Neville*
James Patterson*
Andrew Peterson
Douglas Preston*
Christopher Reich*
James Rollins*
M.J. Rose*
JoAnn Ross
Hank Phillippi Ryan
John Saul*
Susan Arnout Smith
R.L. Stine*
Brad Thor*

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Ted Bell*
Emily Benedek
Janet Berliner-Gluckman*
Allison Brennan
Jan Burke*
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Lincoln Child*
Stephen Coonts*
Brian DAmato
Eileen Dreyer*
Linda Fairstein*
Vince Flynn*
Chris Fox
Joel Goldman*
Heather Graham*
Thomas Greanias
Humphrey Hawksley


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Alan Jacobson
Judith Kelman*
Harley Jane Kozak
Jon Land*
Dennis Lynds*
Francine Mathews*
Kyle Mills*
Twist Phelan
Christopher Rice*
James Siegel*
Taylor Smith*
Carl T. Smith*
Mariah Stewart*
Peter Straub*
M. Diane Vogt*
Stuart Woods*

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Leisure Books*
Ed Mitchell*
Henry Morrison*
Adrian Muller*
Bill Sewell
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