Broken Keys Publishing began in 2015 and has since expanded. The imprint, Broken Keys Publishing - KIDS! opened in 2022 to accommodate the rise and interest in children's books. In September 2022 we further expanding into printing with the imprint Broken Keys Publishing & Press. As of March of 2024 we launched into Sustainable Publishing, becoming more environmentally conscious and responsible. Our core beliefs can be found here on Our Philosophy page.

 

but why Broken Keys Publishing?

About That...

 

The Keys are meant in the sense of piano keys (the quintessential instrument for musical composition), or typewriter keys (the physical tool for creative writing).

 

But more importantly, the Broken aspect isn't used so much in the sense of abandoned disrepair, inferior non-functionality, but in the sense of the Japanese art of Kintsugi, rebuilding broken pottery into something more beautiful than the original. Reassembled, its breakage mended with a lacquered mixture of gold; its composite pieces becoming something superior than the sum of its parts.

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At Broken Keys Publishing we understand the journey of a published book is from something incorporeal and ethereal, that initially exists only in the writer's imagination and heart, to a final book on a bookshelf and in the reader's hands.

 

The sum of this journey's parts are the author's creativity, the technical experience of layout, formatting, editing, and design, the craftsmanship of printers, the artistic eye of illustrators and photographers, the discipline and crucial soft skills of models, the mechanical minds of AI's, marketing and media promotion, to the retail bookshops, and ultimately, morphing back into its incorporeal and ethereal form in a reader's mind.

 

We believe the creation, production, and manufacturing of a book is a grand orchestration of creativity, talents, and skillsets, honed into a symphony by the skilful oversight of a maestro.

 

We believe it is - literally - a journey from the metaphysical into the realms of reality and back again. We are happy, humbled, and ecstatic to accompany authors on this odyssey.