After many frustrating experiences, some with traditional publishers, most with Print on Demand services, Dr. Patricia Ross, founder of Roberts & Ross Publishing, has dedicated her talents and experience to helping you, the hardworking writer who dreams of seeing your book in print.

Roberts & Ross Publishing is one of the only custom publishers out there who truly focuses on its authors. We want your experience to be pleasurable and profitable . At R&R we will be involved as much or as little as you prefer. By offering services ranging from ghost writing to publishing/distributing to marketing and publicity, R&R is truly a unique and sought after authoring partner.

The only way that you would have more control over your book is if you really published it yourself—but that costs anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000 and that doesn’t include the marketing! Compared to publishing on your own, you do give up control of some aspects of the publishing process, but only in exchange for less hassle and expense. R&R professionals with book-publishing expertise will educate and guide you through the entire process—at an affordable price!

Roberts & Ross also understands the importance of marketing your product. You worked hard to make it a quality product. The public needs to know about your book! R&R not only offers full-service editing and publishing services, but marketing and even business branding services so that you are able to do whatever you desire with your book—whether that is to entertain your close circle of friends or to build a thriving business. Most important, our marketing program offers you the choice to be able to test your marketing abilities and to learn about the publicity process without emptying your bank account or making it your full-time career. And, because you control the rights to your book, you can do what you want with it—repurpose it in whatever fashion you wish (note: there are some restrictions on book covers that Roberts & Ross designs; however, the actual text is yours to do with what you will). Published books offer you notoriety, credibility, status, and even sometimes fame and fortune. Let’s get that book you have been mulling over for years into print!

Traditional named publishing is a $23 billion industry. The world we live in has changed and the way business is done has changed. Publishing and books marketing has changed as well! R&R feels traditional publishing is what most people envision when they dream of publishing a book. Out of the approximately six million manuscripts written each year, only 195,000 titles are published. Out of the 195,000 titles published, only 12 percent were published by the five largest trade publishers.

While it's great to have someone give you an advance, pay your publishing costs and get your book into bookstores, the process can be long, arduous and fraught with rejection. Good books get rejected every day, and, unfortunately, the odds are against you. Roberts & Ross also offers an industry high 25% royalty to our authors! You wrote the book so you should reap the benefits!

Get Started with R&R

As much as we would like to accept every manuscript we receive we can’t. Although we want to make the experience easy painless, just like everything in life, there is a process you must go through for consideration. See Submit Your Manuscript for more information.

Our Distribution Channels

Writing a great book and getting it published is only part of the battle. There have been many products and technologies invented throughout history that went nowhere. At R&R we want to make sure that doesn’t happen to your hard work. You need your book promoted, marketed and distributed. Roberts & Ross is proud that we have the largest book distributors in the world to help sell your books! Some you may be familiar with include:

	Ingram Book Group is the world's largest wholesale distributor of book product. Great customer service is the cornerstone of their success. Since 1964, they've provided the book industry with innovations that make doing business easier and more cost-effective. While booksellers from all over the world rely on Ingram to provide industry-leading product selection and fast, reliable order fulfillment, publishers look to Ingram for cutting-edge programs to reach a wider, increasingly diverse customer base.
	Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce. Since Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1995, they have significantly expanded their product offerings, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers. Today, Amazon.com offers everything from books and electronics to tennis rackets and diamond jewelry. They operate sites in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, and China (Joyo.com) and maintain over 25 fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 12 million square feet.
	Taking advantage of vast warehouses across the United States, Barnes and Nobles stock over one million titles for immediate delivery. That's more titles than any other online bookseller. With so many titles, it is vital to give customers an easy way to find precisely the books they are looking for. Their fast search engine enables customers to locate books by title, author, or keyword in a few seconds at most. And their groundbreaking BookBrowser lets users sift through hundreds of categories to find exactly the right book. To further assist the customer, Barnes and Nobles offer descriptions, reviews, and excerpts, in addition to editor recommendations and customer reviews on hundreds of thousands of titles.