Is Cypress House a Vanity Press?
Absolutely not! We are book packagers and print brokers. We provide typesetting, design, consultation on marketing and promotion, and editorial services to authors, publishers and self-publishers around the country. One of our specialties is helping folks launch their own publishing company. For selected titles, we also offer packaging and distribution under our Cypress House or Lost Coast imprints. (We are also a royalty publisher under our QED Press imprint, specializing in health and healing titles.) We do quality work at a fair price, while a vanity press does poor work at an exorbitant price! Cypress House books have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, American Bookseller, Choice, Kirkus, NAPRA and many other trade and retail magazines. Ads for Cypress House appear in The Writer, whose staff refuses to accept ads from vanity publishers because they “don’t feel there is a way to protect writers from the shoddy practices that go on.” We charge a fraction of what a v
