FAQs

Sahara House acquires its books from sources such as direct submissions from writers, commissions from editors to authors, publishers in other countries, and from unsolicited proposals, occasionally.

Leadmanship is Sahara House’s self-publishing imprint for thought leaders seeking the best publishing services for their leadership, business, motivational or religious books. We rely on Leadmanship to seek out inspiring career stories as well as thoughts on business and faith. We offer publishing services that add value and fresh dimension, where necessary, to your work, while retaining your distinctive voice. Your work remains essentially yours and bears your inimitable signature.

In orthography, we follow Standard English language, that is, British English (BrE) (eg ‘colour’ (not ‘color’), ‘travelled’ (not ‘traveled’), ‘dreamt’ (not ‘dreamed’), ‘lit’ (not ‘lighted’), etc). In grammar we write “I’ve got it” not “I’ve gotten it”; and, in matters of transitivity, for instance, we write “The students protested against the decision”, not “the students protested the decision” etc. However with mutual agreement and especially for works targeted at the American market, we make allowance for American varieties. Again, American grammatical nuances may be adopted, to fit a particular character or characters even when Standard English is in use.

No. It is not necessary for you to register or copyright your work before submission. As long as it has not been published elsewhere it is protected by law. When the book is published, we will copyright it in the author’s name and register that copyright with the appropriate National Library, depending on place of publication.

You don’t have to pay to get your book published with Sahara House’s traditional publishing apart from publishing under its Leadmanship imprint.

Firstly, for our traditional publishing, we decide which manuscript to pursue and we bear the costs, assuming the risk of preparing, producing, distributing, and selling the book. But for Leadmanship, the author makes the decisions to turn a manuscript into a book and bears the cost. Secondly, under traditional publishing, we pay a royalty to the author from book sales. But under Leadmanship, authors contract and pay us to have their works published and we do NOT take royalties from book sales.

As a publishing house, we are always on the lookout for the next outstanding book to add to our list of acclaimed titles. So, we are looking for committed authors with a sense of authenticity – be they established or unpublished writers – who write fiction: novels, short stories, novellas, plays, creative non-fiction, poetry; nonfiction: essays, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, mixed-genre; educational text books: primary, secondary and tertiary texts.

If we decide to publish your work through any publishing option that best fits your current project, we will negotiate a contract with you specifying the terms of publication, royalties, timeline, marketing and promotion plans. We will make intelligent decisions jointly with you about your book that will not only meet good quality standards but also ensure cost-effectiveness.