Agio Publishing House

We are book publishing & marketing experts.

Welcome to Agio Publishing House. Please explore our website and contact us with your questions and ideas.

At Agio Publishing House, we produce GREAT books! Readers love them -- and the author enjoys a unique and supportive experience.

Titles launched in 2010 or soon to be released include:

RCMP Superintendent Scotty Gardiner's epic memoir In the Mind of a Mountie;
Barry Mathias's eagerly-awaited third book, Keeper of the Grail, that completes his Ancient Bloodlines Trilogy;
Valley of the Misty Mountain, the first book in Kodi, Christine Buzzi's young adult adventure trilogy;
Suzanne Margaret Seaman's Messages From Light, wisdom from the angels;
Linda Hunter's An Unforgettable AfterGrad;
Wayne Lee's Your G.P.S. to Success;
Tom Martin's The Bluff Detector;
Carl Mawby's Safety and Security for the Over-55s;
Ann Gorra's Cagayan de Oro;
Mel Anthony's Tale Out Of School: A Prankster's Handbook;
Joseph Eliezer's Simply Spirit, Words by Joseph Book I: A Personal Guide to Spiritual Clarity One Insight At A Time;
Blaise Eagleheart's sequel, Beyond the Inner Circle, and Back Again: the C.H.I.L.D. Perspective;
Bruce Batchelor's Dog Team to Dawson; and
in our consulting practice, we are setting up four new publishing entities [Messianic Vision Today, Cufflands Publishing, Be The Change Earth Alliance and Spring Bay Press] for their principals.

AUTHORS: You are invited to submit your manuscripts. In 2007, Agio's founders, Bruce and Marsha Batchelor, having published thousands of books since 1975 through previous ventures, launched a new publishing company: Agio Publishing House, with its head office in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Bruce is the inventor of the print-on-demand (POD) publishing approach that has enabled over 400,000 authors worldwide to be published. From their experience working with authors from over 100 countries, Bruce and Marsha know there is a need to take publishing to the next stage. With the opening of Agio, they have created a highly innovative, specialized publishing service for discerning authors who wish to have a beautiful book launched with an effective, personalized marketing program. Under the expert guidance of these highly respected industry veterans, you can join the ranks of independent ("indie") authors who are re-defining the book industry – in much the same way that indie filmmakers and musicians are bringing new life to the movie and music businesses.

Every author works directly with Bruce Batchelor, an acknowledged leader in the publishing world, to research and plan the optimal marketing mix for his or her book. The publishing costs are jointly underwritten by Agio and the author, making this a truly collaborative venture of shared responsibilities, investment and decision-making. Typically Bruce will edit the manuscript through the substantive edit, line edit and proofing stages.

Cover design and inside page layout are performed by award-winning graphic designer Marsha Batchelor. (Marsha shown in photo at right with her brother, illustrator Stewart McGillis. To see samples of Marsha's artwork and designs, please go to Marsha Batchelor Art & Design Samples.)

Bruce then works with the author on the implementation of the book's multi-faceted marketing campaign. Marketing includes such cost-efficient and cutting-edge tactics as simultaneously releasing paperback and eBook editions, then adding an audio book edition (distributed as a series of podcast episodes) and maybe a hardcover print edition too. Publicity will build from local and niche media coverage to wider audiences, including Internet awareness. Some authors have a blog or website to promote and interact with readers and journalists. Each author's aspirations and capabilities provide opportunities to work with different marketing tactics -- some cutting-edge and others quite traditional. The marketing mix components are described in Bruce's own book, Book Marketing DeMystified.

Agio books are competitively priced in bookstores. As the author, you will earn a royalty percentage on book sales that is substantially higher than what you would receive from other publishing houses. You retain full copyright to the manuscript and to your subsequent writings – this is of great importance if your plan is to use Agio's production and marketing expertise as a springboard to selling future rights to a large publisher, film producer or other media company.

To be able to fully customize our service and work personally with each author, we generally accept no more than one new author each month.

To learn more about being published through Agio Publishing House's collaborative publishing approach, please go to Services: Introduction

Launched in 2009 were these titles:

David Staume's provocative The Atheist Afterlife;
Jane and Jim Pratt's gift to high school graduates, Turtle on a Fence Post;
Blaise Eagleheart's epic Journey to the Inner Circle, and Beyond;
Caroline Whitehead's poignant memoir, Surviving the Shadows;
Martha M. Goguen's second children's book, Global Heart Warming;
Michael Pitt's Beyond the End of the Road, a delightful account of wintering in a remote cabin above the Arctic Circle; and
Trish Bishop's The Question Journey (released through Choose2Live.com).

Our 2008 releases included Rowland Charles Marshall's Luck Was My Companion: Adventures of an Old Sea Dog; the first two books in Barry Mathias's Ancient Bloodlines Trilogy; naturalist David Stirling's Birds, Beasts and a Bike Under the Southern Cross; Bruce Batchelor's Nine Dog Winter; the first of Martha Goguen's Dream, Believe, Achieve series of children's books, entitled Emily; high vibrational healer Nadine Mercey's Deeper Souls, Less Shoes; and Mary-Jane Bateman and Bruce Fogel's Knowledge of Oneness: Letters of Enlightenment from Beyond the Veil.

Our very first Agio books, released in autumn 2007, were Book Marketing DeMystified by Bruce Batchelor and The Onion Files by Major General Val Pattee. All of our books are doing splendidly, following their marketing plans and delivering regular royalties to the authors.

Read Bruce's blog about book marketing trends at bookmarketing.agiopublishing.com/, and read/watch an exposé about the scandal of returnable books at BookIndustryBailout.ca/.