publisher, editing house and literary agency

The time of citizen publishing life stories has arrived. If you have an UNTOLD, AUTHENTIC LIFE STORY which you believe other people would PAY to read -- and you'd like to see it professionally edited and published quickly in print and for instant download to Kindles, iPads and other eReaders all over the world -- contact us now.

Our online bookshop features fiction and non-fiction reading, including authentic life stories by interesting people in many different countries ... take a look. Look for our excellent books here --> formatted for mobile Smart Phones and Kindle eBook readers.

We adopt the motto of the Waterstone’s Book Group in the UK, that the books with the best chance of commercial success are those where the reader can “feel every word”. We're looking for simple, elegant stories -- true or fictionalised -- with significant, global themes that mean something to ordinary people.

Our company vision is that:

Every author has a potential readership and a market for their story. The combination of Strictly Literary’s long professional editing and bookselling expertise and experience, and our networking and marketing abilities on the World Wide Web, can help us to identify and exploit that market for you.

Our mission is:

To help authors create value with their content, and then to capture that value for them through the best available market channels in the most efficient and lucrative way.

We offer:
1. “Traditional” representation to existing print bookshop publishers (which we have offered successfully since 1994 for high-profile clients, but which has a typical timeline of at least 1-2 years and no guarantee of success because acceptance of your work is at the mercy of print publishers' business needs); and
2. The “Future-Focussed” way, which allows you to test the worldwide market reception for your story using our:

a. Experienced analysis and reporting,
b. Professional editing,
c. Cover deign and ISBN allocation,
d. Publication, and
e. Worldwide marketing and distribution of your book for the global reading market to buy, which we offer through our eReader and Print-On-Demand web shop (launched in 2009 and trading ever since).

We specialise in:

Life stories of real people in autobiography or biography form,
True-life non-fiction,
Young adult fiction,
Fantasy,
Thriller-crime,
and others as well (visit our backlist page)

We offer the real skills, experience, quality and presence you need. As some of our authors write:

The books have arrived and they look AMAZING.
They have definitely turned out better than I expected.
I am so proud of the way they look.
Simon Nakapunda
Namibia - author of Clipping Katherine's Wings

The books are lovely. I am very happy with the presentation.
Ellen Rich,
Queensland - author of On the Face of It

Check our Writers' Services Brochure (email for PDF) for the best ways to improve your chances in the cut-throat commercial publishing and distribution marketplace. Just email us to inquire.

All rights reserved, worldwide. We gratefully accept feedback, so contact STRICTLY LITERARY on strictlyliterary@yahoo.com.au if you have a comment or need to know more. If we can help, we will.Postal address: 81 Hoff Street, Mount Gravatt, 4122, Queensland, Australia. Tel: +617 31 2222 32 (0413 004 138).