Publishing with erbacce-press

We now publish chapbooks

...as a service to selected poets... These chapbooks are published by erbacce-press and 50 copies cost around £2.00 a copy with a full colour cover and forty pages… when you work that out it’s cheaper than buying quality Christmas cards.

This is not vanity-publishing; it is a most excellent way to get a publisher acquainted with your work; much better than sending them sheaves of loose paper. Also you can print a chap-book and sell it at your poetry readings making both a small profit and getting your work widely distributed. We’d suggest though that you sell it at about cost-price; the publicity is much more important than any profit.

What are chap-books?

Well literally the name derives from ‘Cheap-Books’; they are usually A5 poetry books containing the work of one author, they usually contain around 30 - 40 pages, sometimes less. Chap books can be self-published on a photo-copier or cheap inkjet printer, or published by a publishing house or your local printer. Often they are rough-and-ready with smudged covers and multiple typos but they serve the purpose; and that is essentially to get the work out there...

BUT, to hell with the ‘usually’s; there are no rules with chap-books; you can publish a short story as a chap-book or even an instruction booklet or jokes or a satirical work or even a brief autobiography if you want to. Try something new is the key. Have a bit of fun and see your work as an easily handled and easily readable book.

If you would like a print-quote for producing your chap-book, or if you need some free advice, click here to email us. We will fix you up with a type-setter, editor and cover designer for FREE! (Usual cost is between £150.00 and £300.00) We'll also print of up to 100 books at cost-price (OR less... we may even do the printing for free if we really feel your work is exceptional and deserves to be out there).

BUT we wont accept just anyone; we will never lend the erbacce-press imprint name to doggerel.