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.
Narrator: Lotta Merenmies
What kinds of stories lie behind the Finnish pop hits of the 2000s?
How do Samu Haber, Anna Puu, Mariska, and Laura Närhi work? Where do Herra Ylppö, Irina, and Mikko Harju find inspiration for their lyrics? How have Nelli Matula, Roope Salminen, and Aurora evolved as songwriters? What kind of relationship do Tero Vesterinen, Terhi Kokkonen, Johannes Brotherus, and Leo have with their lyrics? How did Happoradio, Maustetytöt, Indica, and Kuningasidea achieve their breakthroughs?
What keeps Uniklubi and Disco making music more than two decades after their debut success?
Each songwriter shares the story of one lyric that has been particularly significant for their career.
Each has their own unique way of making music.
Narrator: Anja Kalischke-Bäuerle
Taking a Breather on the North Sea – A Book Like a Summer Evening by the Sea
Katharina has found her dream job as an author. But now she’s suffering from writer’s block. It’s a welcome distraction when her grandmother asks her to run her guesthouse on the North Sea for a few weeks. On the island of Norderney, Katharina can finally take a deep breath again. She meets musician Phil, whose heartfelt songs make her heart skip a beat in more ways than one. Everything seems perfect—until she discovers that her grandmother’s guesthouse is in trouble. And one of the employees appears to be working against her. Can she save the little guesthouse? And which life is truly the right one for Katharina?
Narrator: Raiko Häyrinen
Matti Salminen is one of the great bass singers in music history, whose unique voice and powerful personality have left a profound mark on the world of opera.
His career on opera stages spanned over half a century. His interpretations of the most important bass roles – from lieder to light music – have been recorded on more than 50 albums. The opera houses of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich have honored him with the highest accolades in the field. At New York’s Metropolitan Opera, he has performed more often than any other Finnish male singer.
He is an ambassador of Finnish culture whose legacy will live on for generations to come.
The biography by Petri Tuomi-Nikula, telling the story of an artist who has lived a colorful and dramatic life, was both a critical and commercial success – and is now available as an audiobook.
Narrators: Johanna Valle & Karoliina Kudjoi
In the early 1970s, Finland was still in the strong era of President Urho Kekkonen – a time of urbanization, economic growth, and the development of the welfare state.
Vesimiehen aika tells the story of the friendship between two young women, Maikki and Annikki, and their hitchhiking trip across Europe in 1971. The narrative unfolds through the travel diary written by Maikki. More than 40 years later, Annikki reads the diary on her journey to Stockholm, prompting her to reflect on their friendship and its ending. The storytelling weaves together the stages of Annikki’s life after her retirement with the account of the girls’ shared journey, which also began with a ferry trip to Stockholm.
Ulla-Kirsti Junttila’s novel is partly based on the author’s own hitchhiking travels in Europe in the early 1970s.
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.