Author, are you looking for a publisher?
Book Brothers is a Helsinki-based publishing house that publishes a wide range of high-quality literature in Finnish, German, and English. With our extensive international network, we can easily distribute our published works to all streaming services and retailers as e-books, audiobooks, and physical books.
We offer our authors two different publishing models, where the author’s share of sales revenue ranges from 25% (traditional publishing agreement) to 70% (self-publishing). With thousands of books produced in our studios, we are professionals in audiobook production and, through our publishing house, we want to provide authors with a fair and diversity-promoting way to publish their works for a wide audience.
Sending a manuscript
If you are looking for a publisher for your work, send your manuscript by email to: contact@bookbrothers.fi
- Briefly describe your work and yourself as an author, and include your contact information.
- Send the manuscript in PDF or Word format.
We hope to receive manuscripts in as finished a form as possible. If we accept your work for publication, we will reply by email within a few weeks. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback on all manuscripts we receive.
Publishing services
Book Brothers’ publishing house offers comprehensive support for every stage of publishing a book, from developing the manuscript to releasing the finished audiobook. Our services include, among others, editorial work, proofreading, cover design, and e-book layout. You can decide to what extent you want support in finalizing and marketing your work. Your audiobook will be produced in our cozy studios at Tekstin Talo, where our experienced team and Finland’s top narrators ensure that your story reaches listeners in exactly the right way.
What is the process for publishing an audiobook?
(1) The story
Send us the manuscript of your work in as finished a form as possible. If we accept the work for publication, we will contact you by email and can make a publishing agreement. The literary genres most suitable for audiobooks are especially plot-driven novels, children’s and young adult books, and non-fiction. If your book contains a large number of tables or graphics, we recommend considering another publishing format or adapting the work into a form better suited for an audiobook.
(2) Choosing the narrator
Together, we will choose the voice actor for your book. In our narrator catalog, you will find a wide selection of Finland’s most popular audiobook narrators. Our experienced team will help you find the right voice and ensure the narrator matches the style of the book. We are often asked whether an author can also narrate their own book. Yes, they can! In that case, we will guide you through the studio techniques and provide tips on voice use, or bring in a recording engineer.
(3) Audiobook production
Producing an audiobook takes on average 3–5 weeks from the start of narration to the distribution of the finished audiobook. During the production stage, the book is recorded, proof-listened, corrected, edited, and finally mixed and mastered by an experienced audio engineer. For audiobook production, it is a good idea to prepare a pronunciation guide for any foreign words, which can easily be done once the project has started.
(4) Distribution and marketing
The cover art, metadata, and marketing texts are prepared and delivered along with the audio files for distribution. We distribute your audiobook to all streaming services and online stores. The audiobook will be available to listen to on your desired release date.
(5) Royalties and reporting
We pay out e-book and audiobook royalties to authors twice a year. Along with the payment, we provide the most comprehensive possible report on the book’s sales and listening figures, so that together we can track the journey of the work around the world.