We show you
the whole machine.
Every stage, every standard, every term — in public, where you can judge it. A small house that would rather show you how a book is made than tell you how much it cares.
Every book here is real.
Every series the house publishes, with the real cover, the real hook and a live link where a retail edition exists. Books are announced as they are ready — never as a promise.
43 titles you can buy today
Every one carries a working retail link straight to the edition. Nothing here is a placeholder.
Written, not yet on sale
These titles exist in the house but have no retail edition yet, so they carry no buy link. We do not list a book as available unless you can actually buy it.
Nothing invented, ever
Every title, hook and cover on this site comes from the house's own catalogue records. Where a cover is still in design, we say so.
The Second Genesis
In the frozen aftermath of a world that ended, the survivors built Sanctuary One — a brutalist fortress of steel and glass where order is absolute and freedom is a memory. But something is waking beneath the ice, and the machines that were meant to save humanity have begun to ask who really deserves to survive.
After the Silence
Beneath the Wilds
The Bearer Rebellion
Children of Eden
The whole process,
published up front.
You are about to trust somebody with years of your life. Here is the gate every book passes, and what you walk away with either way.
Read blind
Your manuscript is read for what it is on the page. Name, following and prior sales are not part of the first read.
Written assessment
Structure, pacing, character, voice, market. What works, what does not, and what the book could be.
The verdict
Pass, revise, or decline. Revise is a real answer — with the door held open and a date to come back.
Agree a pack
Only after a pass do we quote production. Scope and price are agreed before anything begins.
A small house
that shows its work.
Anema House is an independent publishing house in Perth, Western Australia. We publish a few series at a time, care more about whether a book endures than how quickly it sells, and put our process in public where you can judge it.
Nobody above us decides our list
No committee in another city, no acquisitions meeting that never read the book. Small enough that the person who reads your manuscript is the person who answers for it.
A book is a cultural object, not a product
Designed, typeset and made to last. Digital and print editions treated as things worth keeping.
We do the whole thing in-house
Editing, design, typesetting, print preparation, digital editions and audiobook production. One house, one standard, from manuscript to shelf.
You can see how the book is made
The stages are published, the standards are published, and the packs are priced up front. You should never have to guess what a publisher is doing with your book.
Send us the enquiry.
Three minutes now, a real answer later. Submissions are by invitation — if we are not the right house for your book we will still tell you what we think it needs.
Enquiry
Your book, in three minutes.
Invited manuscript
We ask for the full text and quote the review.
Review & verdict
Written notes, and a decision you can act on.
Pack & schedule
Scope, price and dates agreed in writing.
Perth · Western Australia