Our Story

We are SRL Publishing, the world’s first climate-positive publisher, who believe passionately in the power of storytelling.

At the start of the 2010s publishers feared the death of the paperback due to the rise of electronic format editions, but sales have been at their lowest since 2011. The sales of physical books have been steadily increasing at an average rate of 5% every year since 2014. While we publish on both e-book and print, there’s nothing more amazing than holding a physical product that has been passed down by family members for years. In our office, we house a very special, 70-year-old Good Housekeeping* cooking book to remind us how important and sentimental physical books can be.

Our strap line is Breaking the Silence, and we aim to do just that. We are all too familiar with the issues in today’s society and the stigma that surrounds. We want to publish not just great books, but great books that help. Books that tackle the tough issues, books to open up difficult conversations and books to help bring people together. 

All of our books and authors are enormously special to us in their own, individual way. We believe that a story can evoke a large range of emotions; they can make you cry, make you laugh and, most importantly, change a life. We want our readers to not just read our books, but live our books. Unlike some publishing houses, we pride ourselves on giving ambitious new authors the chance that is so rarely available in the publishing industry today. 

While some years ago publishing would have been one of the more environmentally damaging industries, developments stemming from changing attitudes toward the environment mean that this is no longer the case. Our business model is inherently sustainable: by only printing what we sell. We deliberately waive our profit margins for the sake of the environment.

Therefore, we have committed ourselves to being an environmentally friendly company, implementing the use of FSC paper in all our books and promotional material and actively encouraging writers to correspond and submit to us electronically. We are supporters of Rainforest Trust, donating enough money from our sales to save between 500,000 – 750,000 trees from deforestation. We have also partnered with Ecologi and TreeApp, where we are planting trees and sequestering C02 emissions through various projects all over the world. For more information, please see our corporate responsibility page.

Please see our submissions page for further information on how to submit your work to us.

*Other cooking publications are available 😉

SRL Publishing are proud members of the Publisher’s Association Sustainability Taskforce, working to develop industry standard tools for the continuing evolution of our industry in accordance with the UN Sustainability goals and to further our contribution towards a low-carbon future. We are also members of the United Nations SDG Publisher Compact, a signatory of Publishing Declares, a member of a Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, and part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation community.

SRL Publishing are also members of the Indie Press Network, an open network seeking to connect independent publishers with each other, with booksellers, and with readers.