Helping Writers Find an Audience

Shared Pen is a startup dedicated to helping writers find an audience. We do this by providing e-book and softcover publishing for writers’ completed works. Shared Pen bears the cost of converting your manuscript into a softcover book and an e-book. Shared Pen then sets up your book for sale at Amazon.com (softcover and e-book), Barnes and Noble and iBook (e-book only).  You take 75% of the net revenue, we take 25%. We are not successful unless you are. There are no gimmicks or hidden fees. The sales price of the book will be determined by its size.

We are a small company and work closely with the authors. We will create an internet presence for your book, create a Facebook page, add your book to reading groups like Goodreads.com and others, and promote your book through these social media. After 25 sales we will build a website to the author.
The author will be able to buy the book as whole sale (1-100).

Send us your query (Go to Publish with Us) and we will let you know the steps to get started with us.

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** Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award **
Set amid the political turbulence of 1990s Mexico, The Grasshopper Lost Its Wings is a literary historical novel about ambition, exile, and moral reckoning.
Eric—known as Chapu—grows up in the margins of Mexico City, selling juice at dawn while dreaming of something larger than poverty. When he falls in love across class lines and is drawn into the inner circle of a presidential campaign, he glimpses a future once unimaginable. But as the nation moves toward the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, Chapu becomes entangled in events that fracture both his country and his own innocence.
A single turning point forces him to flee—first to California, then to Chicago—where survival requires reinvention. In exile, he finds unexpected friendships that help him mature into manhood. Yet growth cannot erase what has been done. The past follows him across borders, insistent and unresolved.
For an immigrant, homeland is never fully left behind; it lives in memory, in language, in conscience. Blending Indigenous Mexican methodology with modern political history, The Grasshopper Lost Its Wings explores identity, responsibility, and the enduring truth that history must be faced before it can be healed.
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Q/A

Q. What happens if I have published my book through Shared Pen, but a traditional publishers decides they want the book?
A. In that case you have our congratulations! At any point in time we can take the book off our site, Amazon and B&N. And we have no rights to anything in your book other than a share of the revenue for sales through our site and other channels we have established, so we will not get in the way of your contract.
Q. What does it really cost me to do this?
A. It doesn’t cost you anything except a sharing of your up-side. There are no fees to you for publishing through us. We bear the cost of converting your manuscript to standard e-book and softcover formats and of creating the pages on our site, Amazon and B&N to sell the book.
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​"Death & Diamonds" is the inspiring true story of Samuel Soldinger, who survived seven Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust, worked for Oskar Schindler, and was finally liberated from Mauthausen Death Camp in World War II. Samuel eventually made his way to America and landed a position with diamond magnate Harry Winston, teaching Native Americans in Arizona the art of diamond cutting.
Much of this book is told in Samuel's own words, as he was compelled to share his story with the hope that the horrors of the Holocaust never happen again. Powerful and poignant, ultimately Samuel’s story is one of perseverance, courage and dignity. The years of unthinkable brutality did not break the spirit of this sweet, strong and gentle giant, who flourished beyond those harrowing days to brighter new ones.
This book is also dedicated to the more than 6 million Jews and others who endured or perished from the atrocities of the Holocaust.  This is to honor them, and spread love, kindness, healing, hope and peace for generations to come.  May we never forget.

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Desert bloom is a collection of poetry and prose that came to life in bright season of healing, heartbreak and flourishing awakening. It explores love, creativity spirituality, vulnerability, intuition and hopeful beginnings in the art medium of words and nature. Desert bloom is an invitation to shed some skin, find your roots, water yourself, rise & bloom your way through adversity in a beautiful way.
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The Boy From The Sword is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award. The Mom’s Choice Awards honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of PBS’s Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of
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