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A new way of publishing

Books are made together.

Curated Word is a new way of publishing that leverages the benefits of modern technology without sacrificing the traditional craft. Authors find editors, cover designers, illustrators, narrators, and publicists. Specialists find authors. We provide the tools, the rails, and the relationships that make good books happen.

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For authors

Everything you need From first draft to final publication.

A modern authoring workspace with AI-assisted feedback, professional editors and designers for hire, and direct paths to print, ebook, and audiobook publication.

For publishing specialists

Build your practice on the platform.

Editors, cover designers, illustrators, narrators, layout designers, proofreaders, publicists — a place to find authors who need your craft.

For readers

Fiction, perfected.

Every title carrying the <em>Curated Word</em> imprint is one we published ourselves — brilliant voices, developed and polished by our editors. Alongside them, independent authors publishing in their own name, clearly marked as their own.

Two ways to publish

Publish it yourself, or let us publish it.

Bring your manuscript into a professional workshop, then choose how it reaches readers — published by you, or published by us.

Self-Published

Independent. Yours, entirely.

Free to publish in your own name, keeping every right — professional tools on tap when you want them, and no gatekeeper between you and your readers.

Curated Word

We become your publisher.

The full partnership: we carry the book — editorial, cover, distribution, marketing — and it goes out under our name.

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For book clubs

Already run a book club? Bring it to Curated Word.

Keep the club you've built — and give it members-only discussions, events, and reading offers in one place. We're partnering with independent clubs first, and we'd love yours to be one of them.

Bring your club

For booksellers

Stock Curated Word titles on consignment.

Order at trade pricing, sell at your own pace, and report sales each month. You only settle for what sells.

Wholesale & consignment

OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS & MEMBERSHIP

Curated Word Is Now Accepting Submissions.

We're building the tools, recruiting the editors, designers, narrators and publicists, and lining up the first list of titles.

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Platform integrations

We integrate with a range of publishing-industry heavyweights to help get your work published and distributed worldwide.