King's Ink Publishing
Accepting submissions 1 February 2025

King's Ink Publishing does not accept AI WRITTEN TEXT or ILLUSTRATIONS, on the basis of the implications of AI text and art on the future of human creativity and intelligence, the taking of livelihoods from human creators, and the illegal stealing of authors' and artists' work.
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Did I tell you how much we love everything about creating books and spreading God's light!

C.S. Lewis once said,
“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
Here at King’s Ink Publishing, it’s your story that we want to help you share.
Your story that honours our Creator, God, and our Saviour, Jesus.
Whether it’s a children’s picture book, a comic book, children’s chapter book, Young Adult, New Adult, Adult, fiction
or non-fiction, a memoir… a serious book, a devotion book, or a funny book,
you know your story and have prayed about it, and will know if it fits here.
As a Christian Publishing House, the content of your manuscript must be from a Christian worldview.
For YA, New Adult and Adult Fiction...
We are accepting two types of writing from Christian authors:
1. Clean stories - that is, stories with no swearing, sex off-screen, no gory or gratuitous violence - free of explicit content.
In other words, no sexual content, and intimate scenes are behind closed doors.
2. Edgy Christian stories - that is stories in YA, Fiction (contemporary and historical) that is real world,
so our readers from whatever walk of life can connect, feel heard and understood, as well as be given hope.
This is what we call edgy Christian writing, and it also fits into the general fiction market.
It must have intimate scenes behind closed doors, sensitively written violence or implied violence,
and be free of explicit content.
If you have a story to turn into the published page, we’d like to offer you three levels of publishing.
After publishing over 350 books for authors with Lilly Pilly Publishing, we find these three levels suit most people.
Scroll down for submission guidelines.
— SPROUT JOY, EVERGREEN or BLOOM —
FOR SCHOOL ANTHOLOGY PRICES - we have published in excess of 20 anthologies - primary, secondary
(public schools and private)
- please email us about your project
At King's Ink Publishing, we want to give people from all walks of life the opportunity to share their God or Jesus story.
Please note: We are neither a Traditional Publishing company, nor a vanity publisher. We help you to self-publish your story.



Sprout Joy
for me
picture books, chapter books, YA, novels, poetry, non-fiction, family history, cookbooks, etc
You’ve written a book and want it printed ‘just because’ - for you, your children, grandchildren, family or friends - as a keepsake, a gift, to leave a piece of yourself to those who are important to you.
For picture books - please send me your story for pagination (the terribly important page turn, critical in picture books to keep the listener or the reader glued to the story.)
With this package you have:
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Proof reading and corrections to punctuation and spelling and grammar
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Formatted cover files & interior files to printer specifications
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Hardcover or softcover book
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Your own publishing imprint included in formatting (if you have one)
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one print proof book for checking
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one round of changes after checking without extra charge
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Books printed for you - you can choose how many you would like to order (Price of book depends of the number of pages)
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Black & white, or full colour interior
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Cover design - full colour front cover and back
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2 changes to text
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No ISBN - which means your book will not be sold in online bookstores, or brick and mortar bookstores, unless you have an agreement with them.
Evergreen
Authors
Upload Your Own Book
picture books, chapter books, YA, novels, poetry, non-fiction, family history, cookbooks, etc
You’ve written a book and it's ready to be released globally. Evergreen is the package where you upload the print ready files to a printer yourself.
For Picture books - please send me your story for pagination (the terribly important page turn, critical in picture books to keep the listener reader glued to the story) - so it's ready to send to an illustrator (illustrator fee not included in this package price - I can help you find an illustrator if you don't have one)
With this package you have:
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A Comprehensive Indie Publishing Checklist (a list of 35)
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Honest opinion about your story, and whether it needs more polishing so that it is the best story that it can be. We will not publish your story, unless it is ready.
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Proof reading and corrections to punctuation and spelling and grammar as it is formatted
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Cover files & interior files to printer specifications (let us know who the printer is before we start formatting your book)
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Your own publishing imprint included in formatting (if you have one)
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Black & white, or full colour interior
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Your cover design - full colour front cover and back
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Hardcover or softcover, or both
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Inclusion on the King's Ink Publishing online bookstore, and the Lilly Pilly Publishing online bookstore, with links to your own websites
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up to two rounds of changes after checking
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book marketing images (1)
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You retain 100% rights to your book
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You retain 100% profits from book sales from Ingram Spark and other bookstores, online and bricks and mortar stores
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Supply your own ISBN
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Upload your print-ready book files to your own printer, we recommend Ingram Spark – which will list your book on over 49,000 online bookstores, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble - or other printery. Please note: having your book in print does not mean guaranteed sales of your book, you will have to actively market your book yourself.
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Support before, during and after the printing process
ISBN
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Purchase your own ISBN from
Thorpe-Bowker so you own your book.
Bloom
Authors
We Upload Your Book to
your Printer
picture books, chapter books, YA, novels, poetry, non-fiction, family history, cookbooks, etc
You’ve written a book and it's ready to be released globally, but you would like me to assist you with uploading your book to a printer, or you own Ingram Spark account - which will list your book on over 49,000 online bookstores, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Please note: this does not mean guaranteed sales of your book, you will have to actively market your book yourself.
For Picture books - please send me your story for pagination first (the terribly important page turn, critical in picture books to keep the listener or reader glued to the story) - so it's ready to send to an illustrator (illustrator fee not included in this package price - I can help you find an illustrator if you don't have one)
With this package you have:
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A Comprehensive Indie Publishing Checklist including marketing ideas (a list of 35)
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Honest opinion about your story, and whether it needs more polishing so that it is the best story that it can be. We will not publish your story unless it is ready
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Your book has been professionally edited
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Proof reading
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Formatted cover files & interior files to printer specifications
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Our Publishing imprint/logo or your own publishing imprint/logo included in formatting (if you have one)
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Support before, during and after the printing process
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Black & white, or full colour interior
-
Cover design - Full colour front cover and back
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Duplex page for paperback
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Hardcover or softcover, or if you choose both
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one round of changes after checking print book
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Inclusion on Lilly Pilly Publishing online bookstore and King's Ink Publishing bookstore, with links to your own websites
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Book cover marketing images (1)
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You retain 100% rights to your book
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You retain 100% profits from book sales from Ingram Spark, Amazon etc
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Supply your own ISBN
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King's Ink Publishing will upload your print-ready book files to your Ingram Spark account for you, including all those nitty-gritty meta data information you need to include – which will list your book on over 49,000 online bookstores, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble
ISBN
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Purchase your own ISBN from
Thorpe-Bowker so you own your book.
Submission Guidelines
General Submission Information
Manuscript formatting guidelines:
Typed doc.x: 12 size font, Times New Roman, 1.5 to double spaced, pages numbered, include your name and email
Please note: Lilly Pilly Publishing will assess your MS for publishing readiness (at no cost). If your manuscript isn't quite ready for publishing yet (meaning it needs more work or professional editing), we'll let you know, as we want to help you publish a book you'll be proud of.
Is My Story Ready?
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Have you read lots of books in your chosen genre?
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Does your story have a story arc?
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Does your story have a problem to be solved? If there’s no problem, it’s not a story.
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Have you written your story - revisited it and rewritten it (many times).
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Has your manuscript had a professional edit?
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Picture Books
The birth of a picture book goes like this -
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Write your Story - and all the rewriting that goes with it
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Editing - an absolute MUST!
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Final story to submit
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STORYBOARD with pagination done by the publisher, who will then supply it to your illustrator of your choice, or I can source an illustrator for you
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Illustration