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The
Matador imprint was established in 1999 in response to the increasing
number of authors wishing to publish their own books. Part of Troubador
Publishing Ltd, Matador offers authors a wide range of services aimed
at publishing, marketing and distributing books to a high standard.

There
are lots of companies out there who will offer to “Publish your book
and make it available worldwide”, but producing a book and giving it an
ISBN number (all that is needed to theoretically make it available
worldwide) is relatively easy. Few will actually be choosy about what
they publish, concentrate hard on proper design and production, and
then actually get out there and sell your book.

Matador
has deliberately established itself at the quality end of the self
publishing market… quality of content, design, production and
distribution. Most authors who publish with Matador are serious about
their self publishing, wanting either a high quality book or a real
chance at getting their work widely distributed and read.

For
authors whose work we are happy to publish, we undertake as much or as
little of the publishing process as required. From design, typesetting
and printing through to marketing and distribution (direct and through
Orca Book Services, our distributors); our aim is to publish a book
that you are proud of and then to get it sold!

Matador is part of Troubador Publishing Ltd,
which has its own commercial publishing programme with respected book
lists in several specialist areas. We also undertake publishing work
for other publishers like Cambridge University Press, Elsevier,
Springer-Verlag and many others (see our client list for information).
Troubador is also a member of the Independent Publishers Guild.
All of our self-publishing authors thus have the guarantee that their
book is in the hands of a professional publishing house. We know how
important your manuscript is to you and we won't let you down because
we respect your work.

Matador has now been recommended in the 2008 and 2009 Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook
– the ‘Bible’ of authors – by anti-vanity publishing campaigner
Johnathon Clifford. We are also the chosen self publishing partner of Lovewriting.co.uk.

Details
of the publishing process are available by following the links above,
and we do suggest that you familiarise yourself with the processes
involved before contacting us to discuss publication of your work.