Not From This Planet
As I mentioned in my post a couple of days ago, in 2018, my oldest friend and I started our publishing house, Not From This Planet. But that wasn’t our first business together. Before that, we ran Purple Self Publishing, and helped authors to publish their books. But Not From This Planet was different, because we wanted to create a new, collaborative model of publishing. (Which consequently, many other publishers have now used a similar structure, realising that working with the author, and paying fair royalties, is a lot better than trying to rip them off.)
We had big plans for NFTP, and set about creating our imprints, of which there are seven (although not all the imprints have books published under them yet) and one of our very first books was Elizabeth’s memoir, Little Something, which we published under our non-fiction imprint, Labradorite Press. All of my Earth Angel novels created the spiritual fiction imprint, The Amethyst Angel, and in total across the imprints we now have 31 titles.
During this time, we have both gone through quite a bit! Elizabeth has been growing her family, she now has four living children, and a beautiful Angel child, and I have had many more jobs, house moves and relentless relationship ups and downs!
So I am very proud of the books that we have brought to life together, of the authors who have joined our publishing family, and I am very glad that I didn’t listen to the naysayers who said it was a bad idea.
The imprints that we have books under so far, are:
The Amethyst Angel (metaphysical/spiritual fiction)
Labradorite Press (non-fiction)
Turquoise Quill Press (poetry)
Amber Beetle Books (children’s fiction)
Jasper Tree Press (general fiction)
And over the next few days, I will do a post on each imprint, and the books under them, because been so long since I shouted about them.
Just as a fun bit of info, the reason there are 7 imprints is to reflect the 7 chakras. So each imprint is a crystal of the right colour. Starting at the crown, Amethyst (purple) then third eye, Labradorite (dark blue) then the throat, Turquoise, then the heart chakra will be our romance imprint (coming soon!) then the solar plexus is Amber (yellow) the sacral (orange) is TBD, and then Jasper (red) is the root.
So there you are, the ultra-spiritual explanation for our imprints!
As well as publishing books under our imprints, I have also published a few dozen books for authors under their own imprints, and I will be featuring them over the coming weeks too. Needless to say, though I may not have been blogging for the last 6 years, I have certainly been busy, so I hope you forgive my absence, but I’m hoping to be back here more often now.
Oh and kudos to my amazing sister, Liz, at Madapple Designs for all the many covers she has created for us, and for the logos for NFTP. I will feature her soon too, I promise 
