PUBLISH YOUR CHRISTIAN BOOK WITHOUT GIVING AWAY YOUR ROYALTIES.
Author-funded Christian publishing with professional editing, design, worldwide distribution, biblical accountability, and strategic marketing — while you retain ownership, creative control, and the royalties remaining after applicable printing, retailer, and distribution fees.
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A publishing house built to serve the author — not own the author.
Rev 1211 Publishing House grew from hands-on experience writing, publishing, marketing, and selling books before turning that experience into a service for other Christian authors.
Our model is deliberately different. Rev 1211 Publishing House serves as the publisher, while your book remains your long-term asset. Authors maintain ownership and control of the publishing accounts used for their work, and Rev 1211 Publishing House does not collect your royalties and send you a percentage.
We also believe a Christian imprint should mean something. Manuscripts are reviewed, biblical and theological concerns are addressed, Scripture references are checked, and authors stay involved through the approval process.
No publisher royalty cut. No ongoing publisher markup on author copies. No forcing authors to rent their own book back from their publisher.
NOT A SELF-PUBLISHING SERVICE. AN AUTHOR-FUNDED CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE.
With self-publishing, the author is the publisher. With Rev 1211 Publishing House, we are the publisher. Your manuscript is submitted for consideration, accepted titles are published under the Rev 1211 Publishing House imprint, and we provide the ISBN, publishing standards, production oversight, and distribution support behind the book.
The difference is how the publishing is funded. Rather than Rev 1211 Publishing House financing the project and recovering that investment through ownership or an ongoing royalty share, the author funds the agreed publishing services upfront. You keep your ownership and royalties; we put our publishing house, process, and imprint behind the book.
Our name goes behind the book.
Accepted titles are published under the Rev 1211 Publishing House imprint rather than simply uploaded on the author's behalf.
Not every manuscript is automatically published.
Manuscripts are reviewed for fit and must move through our applicable editorial, biblical, theological, and production standards.
Published as a Rev 1211 Publishing House title.
We provide the ISBN for eligible editions and prepare the book for applicable Amazon, Ingram, and worldwide distribution channels.
You fund the process. You keep the asset.
Authors retain ownership of their work and Rev 1211 Publishing House takes no ongoing publisher royalty percentage from book sales.
Everyone wants to self-publish... until they start approaching bookstores.
Self-publishing gives authors tremendous freedom. But it also means the author is the publisher. And when a bookstore is deciding which books deserve limited shelf space, that distinction can matter.
Someone has to vet the book.
Christian books can make claims about Scripture, doctrine, theology, marriage, parenting, ministry, prophecy, spiritual warfare, and countless other subjects. A bookstore cannot personally perform a theological review of every independently submitted manuscript that arrives at its door.
Shelf space is valuable.
Every book sitting on a shelf takes the place of another book the store could be selling. Retailers have to consider demand, quality, distribution, returnability, audience fit, and whether a title is likely to move before giving it physical space in their store.
Even consignment costs the store something.
A bookstore may not have to purchase a consignment book upfront, but it still has to receive it, shelve it, track the inventory, record the sales, calculate the author's share, issue payments, and eventually deal with unsold copies. Doing all of that for a title that sells only a handful of copies can cost more in staff time and shelf space than it produces for the store.
A publisher gives the retailer another layer of accountability.
When a book carries the Rev 1211 Publishing House imprint, the author is not simply saying, “I wrote this book and believe you should carry it.” Rev 1211 Publishing House is also putting its name behind the title.
That means the manuscript was accepted into our publishing house, passed through our applicable publishing and theological review process, was professionally prepared, assigned our ISBN, and published under standards we are willing to stand behind.
“Trust me. I stand behind my book.” Published by Rev 1211 Publishing House:
“A Christian publishing house reviewed this book and is willing to put its name behind it.”
Publisher backing does not guarantee that a retailer will stock a title. Every bookstore maintains its own purchasing, theological, inventory, distribution, and consignment policies.
Christian publishing with accountability.
We do not want the Rev 1211 Publishing House name to simply mean that a book was uploaded. We want it to mean the manuscript was reviewed, professionally prepared, and held to defined standards before carrying our imprint.
Your book does not have to stand alone.
Self-publishing can produce an excellent book, but the author is still the publisher behind it. A title published by Rev 1211 Publishing House carries something different: an independent Christian publishing imprint that accepted the manuscript and put its name and standards behind it.
That does not guarantee bookstore placement, rankings, or sales. It does mean your book can be presented as a professionally published Rev 1211 Publishing House title — with a defined publisher, ISBN, review process, production standards, and distribution pathway behind it.
A Christian imprint should mean more than a logo on the spine.
Our review process is designed to help protect the integrity of the Rev 1211 Publishing House imprint while giving authors a clear path to address theological, biblical, and Scripture-related concerns before publication.
Every book must earn the right to carry our imprint.
Every accepted title published by Rev 1211 Publishing House goes through our theological standards review before publication. If the manuscript does not meet our standards as submitted, the required corrections must be addressed before the final edition can be approved.
When your book passes, it becomes a certified title.
Once the final edition has completed our applicable review process and all required revisions have been resolved, Rev 1211 Publishing House issues a theological standards certification for that specific edition.
That certification confirms that the reviewed edition met the theological and publishing standards required by Rev 1211 Publishing House at the time of publication.
✓ Quotation & Translation Review
✓ Citation Review
✓ Theological Standards Review
✓ Required Revisions Resolved
✓ Final Edition Approved
We review the manuscript.
The manuscript is reviewed before publication to identify issues that may need to be corrected, clarified, supported, or removed.
We identify required changes.
That may be a wrong verse reference, an incorrectly attributed Bible translation, an inaccurate quotation, a citation issue, missing context, or a theological statement that does not meet our standards as written.
Required issues are resolved.
If the manuscript is accepted, we work through the required revisions with the author before the book is approved for publication under the Rev 1211 Publishing House imprint.
The final edition is certified.
Once the approved edition passes the applicable review process, Rev 1211 Publishing House issues its theological standards certification for that edition.
The certification can live inside the book itself.
Certified titles can include a dedicated certification page in the front matter explaining that the book passed the Rev 1211 Publishing House Theological Standards Review.
The page can include the title's certification number and a QR code linking directly to the book's verification record on the Rev 1211 Publishing House website.
Scan to verify this title.
Readers and retailers can verify it themselves.
Publisher: Rev 1211 Publishing House
Certification: Theological Standards Certified
ISBN: 0000000000
Edition: First Edition
Certification ID: R1211-XXXX-XXXX
Rev 1211 Publishing House Theological Standards Certification confirms that the identified edition completed and passed the applicable Rev 1211 Publishing House review process at the time of publication. Certification does not represent a claim that every denomination, church, ministry, scholar, or reader will agree with every interpretation or conclusion expressed by the author.
YOUR VISION LEADS. WE HANDLE THE PROCESS.
You are not left trying to figure out publishing software, distribution, formatting, metadata, cover files, and launch strategy on your own.
Submit
Send us your manuscript for consideration.
Review
We determine alignment, suitability, and publishing needs.
Create
Editing, design, formatting, metadata, and applicable production begin.
Approve
You review applicable stages and request changes before approval.
Publish
Eligible titles are prepared for applicable worldwide online distribution.
PUBLISHED TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS.
Children's books, ministry resources, testimonies, Christian nonfiction, and faith-centred teaching.
REAL BOOKS. REAL RESULTS.
Monica Pivetta
Team Ministry reached #2 Best Seller in a competitive Amazon category within its first week.
Brenda Burston
The Tree Who Forgot Her Name reached #1 Hot New Release in two Amazon categories.
Hear from authors who have actually gone through the process.
Publishing is personal. Before choosing a publishing partner, hear from authors who have worked with our team.
We learned by doing it ourselves.
Rev 1211 Publishing House grew from hands-on experience writing, publishing, marketing, and selling books before turning that experience into a service for other Christian authors.
Figures above reflect cumulative historical experience across our own publishing, books, coaching offers, and applicable marketing work. They are provided as context for our experience and are not a promise of results for an individual author or book.
Hi, we're Anthony & Elle.
Before Rev 1211 Publishing House was a publishing house, it was simply the two of us learning how to write, publish, market, and sell our own books.
We learned the process by doing it ourselves — writing, editing, designing, launching, advertising, and selling more than 10,000 copies from our own projects. Along the way, we saw how confusing publishing could be for authors who simply wanted to faithfully steward what God had given them to write.
So we built the kind of publishing house we would have wanted: personal, transparent, professionally equipped, rooted in Christian accountability, and structured so the author does not lose ownership of the work they paid to create.
Today, Rev 1211 Publishing House helps Christian authors take a manuscript from an idea on the page to a professionally published book — while remaining involved, informed, and in control of their work.
Choose the level of support your book actually needs.
Start with the outcome you need. Every package builds on professional publishing fundamentals while higher levels add promotion, audience building, and paid market validation.
Professional publishing, distribution, review, and author resources.
Publishing plus promotional support and pre-launch audience building.
Publishing, audience building, and paid market validation before launch.
Package scope varies by project. Manuscripts requiring services outside the listed scope or material project changes may require additional work. Applicable costs are discussed before that additional work proceeds.
Before you choose a publisher, run the numbers.
A publishing package is only part of the cost. Royalty splits, author-copy markups, printing costs, and your retail margin can dramatically change how many books you need to sell just to earn back your publishing investment.
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