LifeLines Press - A NEW PRINTING PRESS TURNS FAMILY HISTORIES INTO FAMILY HEIRLOOMS

A colleague and I have started a new printing press which has received huge
encouragement from literary agents and publishers. We hoped it might be of
interest to some of your writers. It’s been set up mainly for authors of
non-fiction - autobiography, memoir, biography, travel, and family histories -
who have had difficulty getting their work accepted, or who feel their
manuscript is not necessarily for the commercial market.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like more information.

Best wishes,

Rebecca de Saintonge

A NEW PRINTING PRESS TURNS FAMILY HISTORIES INTO FAMILY HEIRLOOMS

A new printing press has been set up that offers an alternative to the
potential exploitation of vanity publishing.

LifeLines Press was started in April of this year by two professional writers
who were frustrated that wonderful autobiographies and family stories were not
getting into print because they didn’t meet the demands of the commercial market
place. Until last Christmas Rebecca de Saintonge was the manager of The Literary
Consultancy, the country’s most prestigious critiquing agency. There she and her
colleague, Alan Wilkinson, worked as mentors and editors to aspiring writers.

They were sent memoirs from people as diverse as circus performers and
holocaust survivors. They read love letters from the Boer War and stories of
ordinary families that spanned generations. Both felt these texts were unique
social documents in their own right and deserved to be preserved for future
generations – the problem was how.

"The only alternatives were for people to self-publish – which isn’t easy to
do well unless you have specialist knowledge – or to go to a vanity publisher.
This costs many thousands of pounds and you usually end up with a pile of unsold
books under the spare bed", says Rebecca de Saintonge. "The road to vanity
publishing is often paved with spurious promises and false hope, as many of our
clients testified. And not infrequently there are hidden costs that aren't
immediately obvious."

Alan and Rebecca decided to set up their own press to produce limited hard
back editions that were not for sale, but made to be kept as heirlooms, handed
down to friends and family. Every book is individually designed, printed on
archive paper and stitched. They are bound in a variety of leathers and hand
made marbled papers by skilled craftsmen using traditional methods. The de luxe
editions are bound in calf and tooled in gold leaf, but there is also a much
cheaper range using beautifully coloured book-cloths. All the materials are of
the finest quality, designed to last 100 years or more. LifeLines also print
paperback runs for those who want additional copies.

LifeLines Press offers an initial consultation free of charge.

Pricing is based on each individual order. To give a very general idea, a run
of 100 A5 paperbacks could start at around £1,400 with additional hardback
covers ranging from £60 per volume for cloth-bound up to £160 each for a run of
full leather. Please ring to get a clearer idea of costs for your particular
project. Our books are VAT exempt.

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de Saintonge on 01892 512323 or email href="mailto:info@lifelinespress.com">size=2>info@lifelinespress.com