Traditional Publisher Targets Women, Minority, and International Authors

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Dec. 26, 2015 - PRLog -- Launched early in 2015, Kharis Publishing operates a traditional book publishing model, while helping women, minority, and international authors get published. There is no charge to authors at any stage of the publication process - from acquisition, editing, design, printing, to distribution.

According to Dr. Francis Umesiri, Vice President, Operations, Kharis Publishing views itself as a project in social entrepreneurship. He notes that most people do not have the kind of name recognition and established platform that allow big publishing houses to take a chance on them. For example, probability of getting an unsolicited manuscript published is about 1 in 15,000. In fact, even literary agencies, on average, turn down about 96% of submissions received. The situation appears to be direr for minorities and international authors, including women. As a result, millions of fine writers are denied the opportunity to share their work professionally, or are preyed on by vanity presses. Kharis Publishing aims to fill this critical gap in publishing, and provides what it calls 'innovative third option” to publish traditionally.

Kharis Publishing is distinctive from other traditional publishers because it takes a risk on new authors, and makes helping women, minority, and international authors a major part of its corporate mission. Another important distinctive is that the company does not pay advance royalty, as it invests its resources upfront in producing a quality book. To make up for the lack of advance royalty, Kharis Publishing pays a fixed high royalty rate of 40% on net receipts, for both print and electronic books. While this arrangement may not be suitable for all authors, it certainly offers new authors a good chance of getting published in the traditional sense.

The company is currently accepting submissions in various genres on their web site at www.kharispublishing.com: Christian, health and wellness, memoir/biography, inspirational, business, and family-friendly fiction. Kharis Publishing is an imprint of Kharis Media LLC, located in Bentonville, Arkansas.