The house.
Verlagi is a new independent publishing house. We are building our catalogue from the first book onwards (deliberately small, deliberately selective), and we are honest about being new, because it is the reason we can give every book what it deserves.
Founded 2026 · Founding list 2027 · United Kingdom
What we believe
Our founding list will be small. Every book must earn its place on it.
We bring together publishing, commercial and production experience with the editorial and specialist expertise each book requires.
We are building a catalogue for the long term: selecting carefully, publishing on traditional terms and giving each book the editorial, production and commercial attention it requires.
Who publishes Verlagi
Jamie Rand came into publishing from its commercial and operational side rather than through a traditional editorial career. That background gives the house a different view of books: not only what gets published, but what happens afterwards.
The experience runs through book production and academic publishing: what a print run costs, what a distributor takes, which titles keep selling years after launch, and how much of a book’s commercial life happens after publication day. Most of it, as it turns out.
The rest of that career has been in digital marketing, search and ecommerce. Publishing a good book is only half the job. The other half is putting it in front of its readers, and that is where most small publishers struggle.
Verlagi is a traditional publisher. You never pay us anything; we invest in the book and earn our return by selling it.
Jamie reads the submissions and makes the acquisition decisions, and stays with each title through to publication. Around every book we bring in the editing, subject review, design and proofreading it needs. The approach is set by the manuscript, not by a package.
Much of the administration here is automated: metadata, contracts, royalties, files. That keeps overhead low, so more time and money go into the books.
It stops at the editorial line, and that line is not a soft one. Jamie reads every submission personally. No judgement about your book, and no editing of it, is made by a machine.
The aim is to build a small catalogue of books worth publishing, keep them available for the long term, and give each one a serious chance of finding its readers.
Questions about a submission, or about how we work, come straight to Jamie: [email protected].
How we publish
Proper editing: structural, line and copy editing as required, with specialist subject review where the book needs it
Real production values: professionally designed, typeset and printed in the UK
Commercial attention: every book gets a marketing plan, not just a listing
Traditional terms: we invest in the book; authors never pay Verlagi anything
Kept in print: we publish for the long term and keep books available
A direct relationship: you deal with the people making the decisions
That is the summary. The full account, stage by stage, is at how we publish.
The books themselves
The founding list is being read for now.Nothing is announced before a contract exists, so there is no catalogue on this site yet, and there won’t be until there is something real to put in it.
When there is, this is the standard each title is held to: structural and copy editing by specialists in the subject, technical review where the claims demand it, an independent proofreader, and a cover designed rather than templated. Books are printed in the UK, in short runs at first, and kept available for as long as there are readers for them. The backlist is the point, not the launch.
Formats, paper and finishings are settled title by title, and the details will be published here once the first book is specced.
Find good books.
Publish them properly.
That is the whole plan. If you have written one of the good books, we would like to read it.
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