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Good books,
published properly.

Kellsbury is an independent publishing service. We take manuscripts seriously, deal with authors plainly, and put craft into every stage — from the first edit to the finished book.

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What we do

Editorial

Manuscript assessment, structural editing, copyediting and proofreading — honest, rigorous, and always in service of the book.

Design & typesetting

Covers that belong on a shelf, and interiors set with care — for print and for screens.

Production & release

Print-ready files, ebook conversion, and release through print-on-demand and the major ebook platforms.

Plain dealing

A single point of contact and plain English from enquiry to release. You will always know where your book is up to.

Featured authors

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Nathan Searle

Psychological thriller

Author of The Amity Papers — Gentling, Moratorium and Counterfactual — a complete trilogy about the people who train the wildness out of machines, and the question no one in the building can answer: whose manners are they?

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Dead Ground by Mathew Hale — cover

Mathew Hale

Military thriller

Author of Dead Ground, book one of The Reckoning Line. They called it suicide; Jace Dresner calls it murder. An SAS veteran hunts the truth from Canberra to the red gorges of the Kimberley.

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Author enquiries

We're open to enquiries from authors at any stage — a finished manuscript, a work in progress, or a book you'd like to bring back into print.

Send us:

  • a short note about you and the book
  • a synopsis
  • the opening chapters, or the full manuscript if you have it

We read every submission. Please allow a few weeks for a considered reply.

submissions@kellsbury.com

Attachments welcome — PDF or Word.