A Different Approach

Mission: Give the modern Church the building blocks to imagine a Kingdom-future.

Vision: Our purpose is to cultivate art defined by excellence and responsibly spread this art for the edification and redemption of the cultural imagination.

Values: We promise our readers and authors that every decision is made with these values as the compass and rudder.

  • Operate with Christ in the room (love God, love others)

  • Develop and share quality art that will positively impact readers

  • The good of the customer is always more important than income

  • Leaders are last (including financially)

  • Responsibility, not obsession (engaged at home above work)

  • AI is used rarely, if ever, and done with responsibility to not take from other creators

Living Tome Publishing is a non-profit publishing house dedicated to nurturing authors through a community-driven approach. We believe in empowering storytellers by providing guidance, resources, and a supportive network to develop their craft and bring their books to life. Our authors retain a significant portion of their book sales while benefiting from professional editorial support and publishing expertise.

With a focus on sustainability in partnership and fostering God-honoring creativity, we are redefining what it means to publish with purpose.

We want to reshape the world of books. We believe that now, more than ever, there is a great need to slow down and return to the art of writing.

We firmly believe equipping authors via community to become better writers. That’s why we started The Grove, a program for aspiring and established authors that will provide a community with feedback and coaching.

Our goal is to intentionally disciple and support the next generation of Christian authors who create excellent art from sanctified imaginations.

  • The publishing industry has been going through a ‘fast fashion’ phase that has resulted in a flood of books with an emphasis on making money quickly at the expense of quality. Our goal is not to make the publishing process take a long time, but rather to carefully select stories that need to be told and, like carpenters, chisel and shape the words until they form the best story possible.

  • While many of our books are written by Christian authors and have Christian themes, others are meant for the general market.

    Stories deal with difficult topics and the understand that no one is perfect. We strive to show these characters and situations in a way that is both accurate and respectful, but there may be elements (such as violence or mild profanity) that are offensive to some readers.

  • We welcome all writers who have a complete (or nearly complete) manuscript who want to improve their craft while helping other writers improve at the same time. That said, we do open each meeting in prayer because we care deeply about our writers and want to submit all our work to God.

  • We are honored you’re considering LT Publishing for your story and would be delighted to see if your book is a good fit!

    Please keep queries to two pages. Page one should contain your book’s genre, why you want to working with Living Tome, and a brief synopsis. The second page should be an excerpt from your work that you believe best represents the story.

    Send your Word, Google Doc, or PDF to: query@livingtomepublishing.org

Submit a query

Please keep queries to two pages. Page one should contain your book’s genre, why you want to working with Living Tome, and a brief synopsis. The second page should be an excerpt from your work that you believe best represents the story.

Send queries to editor@LTPublishing.org