Many new authors think of publishing as only existing in two categories—traditional and self-publishing. Today, this is not the case as there are a number of different ways to successfully place a book into print. And some if the various types of publishing are listed as follows:

• Trade publishers
• professional and scholarly publishers
• educational and university presses
• custom and independent publishers
• e-books and audio-books
• subsidy and vanity presses
• local and regional presses
• self-publishers
• fulfillment houses
• local print shops

Southern Lion Books, Inc. is an independent custom publisher who strongly believes in providing exceptional customer service to our select clientele.

Our company has established relationships with outstanding graphic designers, typesetters, and printers from around the country. This special association is a team effort that provides competitive pricing to our customers along with the best in design, production and printing services. The graphic artists who create our book covers do designs for many of the larger university presses. In addition, we employ printing companies that manufacture books for national publishing houses.   

Southern Lion Books is also a regional press with interests that are provincial in scope. We promote the titles of other quality publishing houses that share in our common interests and we firmly believe that the reprinting of quality antiquarian literature is true historical preservation. 

Does Southern Lion Books accept all manuscripts submitted?
Absolutely not!  Our customers must maintain that they are the sole author(s) and owner(s) of the copyright and contents of their work and guarantee that their book is not an act of plagiarism or in violation of anyone’s privacy; and, is not injurious, obscene, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise a violation or infringement of any U. S., state, or local laws, statutes, or codes.

Furthermore, we hold the right to refuse to publish any manuscript that we deem to be unworthy of our imprint and this includes any work that does not hold, in our estimation, cultural, historical, educational or spiritual merit.  

In addition, we have declined the publication of some good and worthy manuscripts because the authors were primarily seeking a distributor and were not interested in selling their own books. Our primary business is the production of quality publications for distribution by authors and their representatives.