Every Author
Is
An Entrepreneur
We’re in the business of backing visionaries.
The best books deserve the same investment, attention, and ambition as any startup venture. We give our authors the tools they need to break through and reach their audience.
We are currently seeking:
Ambitious debut and emerging writers.
Narratives with potential for life beyond print.
Stories already resonating with audiences through podcasts, social media, or serialization on Substack or in newsletters.
Our Principles
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Shearline authors are true partners at every step in the journey, and they share in far more of what their books earn than is traditional in the industry.
We support authors long after publication day, as they take their stories off the page. But unlike most book contracts, our writers retain full ownership of their work.
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Readers deserve honesty, and authors who do the work deserve credit. Every Shearline book discloses exactly how AI was used in its making — a new standard of transparency for the publishing industry.
In every book, the colophon tells about not only the typeface and the paper but also any ways that AI was used in writing, editing, design, and production.
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We publish novels that make sense of and challenge the forces that are reshaping our institutions and altering our lives: technology, wealth, and power.
These stories are timely, and we publish with urgency, without the long delays common in book publishing.
