Welcome to the authors' foundry!
The Authors' Foundry is an independent publishing house dedicated to presenting works by the leading authorities in non-fiction disciplines and trailblazers in fiction genres.
Our Imprints
The Authors' Foundry publishes under three specialized imprints:
- Satori Press (martial arts non-fiction)
- Magnum Opus Publishing (fiction)
- Authors' Foundry (general non-fiction)
The Writer's Crucible
Every light you see in that cityscape above represents an author somewhere who is at this very moment in the writer’s crucible. The still hours between midnight and dawn when the rest of the world is at rest so often find the writer hunkered over a keyboard, locked in the struggle to produce the next masterpiece of fiction or a paradigm-shifting idea. Combining the art and craft with the tedious mechanics of writing can be an arduous process that makes the stereotype of the author as a tortured soul all too real for so many writers.
This is the writer’s crucible … that place where the fires of hard work and inspiration relentlessly burn away the slag and, when the conditions are right, leave pure gold. It is not just the work that is purified during this process, but the writer, as well. When the words won’t come of their own volition they must be wrenched from the writer’s soul. Trimming away the excess can be a form of emotional surgery for which there is no anesthetic. The hours spent in the writer’s crucible can be pure agony at times.
The Author’s Foundry is a place where the works of those who have endured the writer’s crucible can be found. As an independent boutique publisher, we offer readers the works of authors whose talents have yet to be discovered by the mainstream and the masses, as well as some whose ideas are too controversial or unfashionable for publishers too greed-driven or cowardly to risk giving them a chance to develop their voices and styles.
Instead of a literary agent or an editor deciding what an author should or should not be allowed to write or publish, at the Author’s Foundry we allow our readers and customers to decide. Most of our authors publish excerpts, sample chapters, or even complete works for you to read absolutely free … and if you like their style and their ideas, you can purchase their works in our online store.
Freedom of choice! Readers deciding what they like and don't like; what they can and will read ... what a novel concept!
Some of our authors also maintain blogs or participate in our discussion boards to afford you the opportunity to critique their works or interact with them. This can help our writers find their voice, their readers, and refine their writing styles.
Recent Updates
On our discussion board, Len Pellman is discussing ideas for his forthcoming book on Okinawa kobujutsu. If you are interested in martial arts or Okinawan weapons systems (the bō, sai, tonfa, nunchaku, kama, eku, etc.), please join the discussion here.
A sample chapter of Upton O. Goode’s upcoming novel, Mindbending, is available to read free on our Works page. You can comment on it on our discussion board before the book goes to press. Mr. Goodes’s biographical sketch is now available on our Authors page.
We’ve added some new links to our Related Links section below. Two of these links are to information about some of Len Pellman’s previously published books. Another is a link to Amazon’s CreateSpace, which might be of interest to potential Author’s Foundry writers.