Agio Publishing House

We are an award-winning boutique book publishing service.

Welcome to Agio Publishing House. Please explore our website and contact us with your questions and ideas.

At Agio Publishing House, we produce GREAT books! Readers love them -- and the author enjoys a unique and supportive experience.

New authors: please jump down to our welcome lower on this page to learn about submitting a proposal for collaborating on the publishing of your book.

Titles being published in 2024 include these:

• Virginia Satir's Evolving Legacy - Transformative Therapy with a Body-Mind Connection
• the French translation of Emma and Golden and the Inner Wisdom Way - an inspirational children's book by Vivien Muir
• H.B. Dumont's sixth novel in the "Noir Intelligence" series, The 14th Cobblestone
• A textbook and curriculum on "trip option improvement by large organizations" for transportation and urban planners

Titles previously published include these:

• H.B. Dumont's fifth novel in the "Noir Intelligence" series, Gunpowder Treason and Plot
• Emma and Golden and the Inner Wisdom Way, an inspirational children's book by Vivien Muir
• Interior layout and cover design for Bennett & Hastings Publishers on their new hillbilly gothic novel, Holy Roller Heart by Mitch Luckett
• Private Investigator Leanne Jones has created another young reader book as a follow-up to "Cool to be Clever" and "The Forever Battery Invention" - this book is Mr. Braschuk's Marvellous Motor
• H.B. Dumont's third and fourth novels in the "Noir Intelligence" series, Kiss of the Death Adder and Assassin in My Bed
• Martha M. Goguen's seventh book of her Dream Believe Achieve(tm) series, The Banyan Tree Club, illustrated by Louise Sumner.
• John Groshell's poignant and hilarious memoir, Confessions of a Wee Poison PGA Golf Pro
• Kathleen Ann Kelly's Where Dogs Dwell - an account of her life as a nun and nurse midwife in South America during the turbulent 1970s and '80s
• Australian playwright David Staume's newest creation, Enlightenment: A Week to Find the Meaning of Life, A Musical Comedy in 4 Acts
• H.B. Dumont's first in a series of "Noir Intelligence" mysteries set in Cold War-era France, The Black Hat
• H.B. Dumont's second novel in the "Noir Intelligence" series, Spine of the Antiquinarian
• Dr. Jona Gorra's account of emigrating to the US from the Philippines and establishing a successful medical practice: It's Only a Bump
• Annie Rochette and Philippe Gaulin's Stroke Phenomenology - translated from the original French-language edition.
• Private Investigator Leanne Jones has created another young reader book as a follow-up to "Cool to be Clever", this book is The 'Forever Battery' Invention
• Barry Mathias has completed his Celtic Dreams Trilogy with the publication of The Final Dream
• Alan Roy has released his debut novel, Oliva & McBride, a story of love and destiny set in Tanzania;
• Jeff Batchelor has unveiled his self-improvement playbook everydaybetter: A Model of Possibilities;
• Martha M. Goguen's sixth book of her Dream Believe Achieve(tm) series, The Wildflower Bee & Bee, illustrated by Lili Truemner-Caron.
• Private Investigator Leanne Jones lays out the facts in one of BC's craziest cold cases Murder In A Cabin;
• The expanded edition of Catching Your Breath in Grief: and grace will lead you home by Thomas Attig, (for Breath of Life Publishing).
• Dr. Robert Pereira's Illuminating Dual Diagnosis, the sequel to "Faces of Dual Diagnosis" (2011) and "Reflections of Dual Diagnosis";
• G. Michael Smith's The Accidental Adventures of Bernie the Banana Slug;
• Barry Mathias's In The Ashes of a Dream, the sequel to Celtic Dreams of Glory;
• G. Michael Smith's Omie 17, book four in the "The Forevers" science fiction series;
• Marsha Batchelor's Paint & Eye, selected works from 2012 to 2018;
• Naiyf Saud's Scienatics: The Science of Science; and
• The yet-to-be-titled sequel to Janet Brooks's Painting Out Loud.
• The Amazon.ca bestselling Mystical Intimacy: Entering into a Conscious Relationship with Your Spirit and Human Nature, written by Linda L. Nardelli channeling the teachings of Masiandia;
• G. Michael Smith's Fixer 13, Master Fixer and Impostor - books one, two and three in the "The Forevers" science fiction series;
• The Courage to Look Back, the sequel to "The Boys of St. Mary's: Keep On Keeping On", edited by Caroline Whitehead, written by the members of the KOKO old boys network;
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• Joy Gartshore's From Here & Nowhere: Musings of a Joyous Spirit.
• In Your Face: What's Yours Saying About You?, a modern guide to determine anyone's character and emotional history, created by Emisch Oghma;
• "Falconbridge, My Hometown", edited by Charlie Stafford with contributions from 73 pioneering families;
• Private investigator Leanne Jones's Blood In The Cabin: A mystery based on real events and a revelation - a private investigator's files on two cold cases;
• Dr. David Johnston's Jung's Global Vision: Western Psyche Eastern Mind, comparing Professor Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother;
• Captain Bob Gartshore's A Life of Flight: One Pilot's Story, from Piper Cubs to 747s and Beyond, chronicling his aviation career;
• Just Think, I Could Have Been Normal, Nova Bannatyne-Eng's powerful story of growing up with cerebral palsy;
• John C. Smith's second novel in the Jack Sterling series, First Class Passage, with retired detective Sterling investigating a murder on a cruise ship in mid-ocean;
• The Doggie Lama, the fifth book in Martha Goguen's Dream, Believe, Achieve series for kids; and
• Dr. Trevor Watson's Straddling the 'Hound: The Curious Charms of Long-Distance Bus Travel, a collection of philosophical observations and musings gathered on Watson's four long-distance bus trips in the USA.
• Eco-futurist and bestselling author Guy Dauncey's Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible, cited as a "brilliant" ecotopian novel by David Suzuki;
• Health care policy researcher and bestselling author Alan Cassel's The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine's Best Kept Secret, revealing the Cochrane Connection's pivotal work in reforming health care worldwide;
• All Good Things by leading financial advisor Adam Hennick;
• Anti-stress Colouring & Doodling Book For All Ages, the second book by MichKa Art Play's Michelle Miller and Kate Carson;
• Dr. Robert Pereira's Reflections of Dual Diagnosis: A Canadian Perspective, the sequel to "Faces of Dual Diagnosis" (2011);
• Painting Out Loud: Selected Works 2012 to 2015 by noted abstract painter Janet Brooks;
• Sales guru Barry Andruschak's Prospecting & Setting Appointments Made Easy;
• The Boys of St. Mary's: Keep On Keeping On, edited by Caroline Whitehead, written by the members of the KOKO old boys network;
• Neil's Story: A Cancer Cure and Love (new edition)", written by Anne Morbey; and
• Storm Rising: A Movie Treatment by Professor Vernon Brooks, a movie proposal with sample scripts and treatments, about aeronautical design and espionage between the Great Wars leading up to the development of the Spitfire fighter.
• Ed Brown's A Soldier's Fortune and Other Poems: Moving past PTSD and creating a fun-loving life;
• Funky Animals, the first in a series of art instruction books by MichKa Art Play's Michelle Miller and Kate Carson (a Kickstarter-funded project);
• Dog Team to Dawson: A Quest for the Cosmic Bannock and Other Yukon Stories, a collection of true Northern stories by bestselling author Bruce Batchelor;
• bestselling BC author Charlie Schiedeman's third RCMP book, When Grampa was a Mountie;
• Michael Pitt's third book about northern adventures and second on canoeing wilderness rivers, called Franklin, Oops, Mud and Cupcake: Canoeing the Coppermine, Seal, Anderson and Snowdrift Rivers of Northern Canada;
• the third book in Caroline Whitehead's family saga, Under the Old Railway Clock.
• On April 26, 2014, Agio Publishing House hosted a lovely evening presentation called UNVEILING THE MIDDLE EAST with Ghada Alatrash (performing Arabic poems, short stories and translations) and Ed Brown (poems and commentary about PTSD by a former UN peacekeeper). More details at http://www.agiopublishing.com/unveiling.html.
• A very successful showing of Marsha's abstract paintings at Dales Gallery - see info at http://dalesgallery.ca/shows/march-show/.
• Double Rainbow at Full Moon: Surviving the Collapse of Zimbabwe, a novel by B.A.K. Sim;
• The Mountie in the House and Other Stories by Rick Butler;
• Celtic Dreams of Glory by Barry Mathias, author of the Ancient Bloodlines Trilogy. This is the first book in the new Celtic Dreams Trilogy;
• Sissy Goes to Washington, the fourth book in the Dream Believe Achieve series by Martha Goguen;
• The Photographer's Toolkit, an interactive multi-touch ebook for iPad by David Caleb;
• The Third Path: Breaching the Materialistic Wall by Bud Carroll;
• Janet Clarkson's entertaining and educational At My Father's Knee: Chronicles of a Buckhorn pioneer family; and
• Bob and Mel Anthony's eclectic Novus Mirabilis (for Robert Anthony, Publisher).
• So That the Poem Remains: Poems by Lebanese-American Poet Youssef Abdul Samad, Selected and Translated by Ghada Alatrash, co-published with the New Pen League of New York City;
• Governance and Security as a Unitary Concept, a university and college text edited by Drs. Tom Rippon and Graham Kemp, released in hardcover, paperback, ePub, secure PDF and iPad multi-touch interactive editions, co-published with Avalon Institute Inc.;
• Gwen Weiss-Numeroff's award-winning Extraordinary Centenarians in America: Their Secrets to Living a Long, Vibrant Life;
• Hank Sands' A Wolf's Moon: A Helicopter Pilot's Story;
• Open Heart Runner: searching for meaning after my heart stopped by Gregory Marchand;
• Tetsuro Saito's Shin So Shiatsu: Healing the Deeper Meridian Systems, Second Edition and accompanying Practitioner's Reference Manual;
• John C. Smith's The Scarlet Sentinels: An RCMP Policing Novel Based on True Events; and
• Catching Your Breath in Grief: and grace will lead you home by Thomas Attig, (for Breath of Life Publishing).
• Our first enhanced ebook app: based on Leanne Jones's Cool To Be Clever, the story of Edson C. Hendricks, the genius who invented the design for the Internet;
• Dr. Patrick Crean's Science, Self-Knowledge & Spirituality: A Feedback Model of Bernard Lonergan's Philosophy of Human Consciousness and memoir, Pictures On My Pillow: An Oceanographer's Exploration of the Symbols of Self-Transcendence;
• Carl Mawby's Safety and Security for the Over-55s;
• Bodysculpturing expert Karen McCoy's One Rep At A Time: An athlete and mother reveals the secrets to creating inner power and serenity, includes the 8-Week BLISS(tm) Body Makeover Program!;
• Dr. Robert Pereira's Faces of Dual Diagnosis: A Canadian Perspective;
• Caroline Whitehead's sequel to Surviving The Shadows, called Rowland: A Heart of Sunshine;
• Dr. Tom Morison's novel, In Search of Her Ayah;
• Lori Holmes-Boyle's The Second Seraph trilogy;
• Alan Roy's From Clay to Classrooms, the story about building elementary schools in Africa;
• Martha M. Goguen's third book of her Dream Believe Achieve(tm) series, Andromeda, illustrated by Patrica M. Walker;
• Leanne Jones's It's Cool To Be Clever, the story of Edson C. Hendricks, the genius who invented the design for the Internet, illustrated by Anna Mah. (Hardcover edition)
• Paul Price's ebook, Shadows On The Trail, a very personal story of his experiences with rescue dogs; and
• Tony Edwards's vivid account of 1950s school days in Tanganyika, The Slope of Kongwa Hill: A Boy's Tale of Africa.
• Retired RCMP Superintendent Scotty Gardiner's epic memoir, In the Mind of a Mountie;
• Barry Mathias's eagerly-awaited third book, Keeper of the Grail, that completes his Ancient Bloodlines Trilogy;
• Valley of the Misty Mountain, the first book in Kodi, Christine Buzzi's young adult adventure trilogy;
• Suzanne Margaret Seaman's Messages From Light, wisdom from the angels;
• Joseph Eliezer's Simply Spirit, Words by Joseph Book I: A Personal Guide to Spiritual Clarity One Insight At A Time;
• Linda Hunter's An Unforgettable After-Grad;
• Tom Martin's The Bluff Detector;
• Ann Gorra's City of Gold: People Who Made Their Home and History in Cagayan de Oro;
• Mel Anthony's Pranksters at Play: Tales Out Of School;
• Adam Hart's e3 for LIFE;
• Dan and Marsha Batchelor's brilliant Just Passing Through: an alphabet book of thoughts to perhaps perceive life in a new way, featuring art, collage and photography - a motivational self-help book about power, success, secrets and changing your mind; and
• in our consulting practice, we assisted in the set-up of four new publishing entities [Messianic Vision Today, Cufflands Publishing, Be The Change Earth Alliance and Spring Bay Press] for their principals.
• David Staume's provocative The Atheist Afterlife;
• Jane and Jim Pratt's gift to high school graduates, Turtle on a Fence Post;
• Blaise Eagleheart's epic Journey to the Inner Circle, and Beyond;
• Caroline Whitehead's poignant memoir, Surviving the Shadows;
• Martha M. Goguen's second children's book, Global Heart Warming;
• Michael Pitt's Beyond the End of the Road, a delightful account of wintering in a remote cabin above the Arctic Circle; and
• Trish Bishop's The Question Journey (released through Choose2Live.com).
• Rowland Charles Marshall's Luck Was My Companion: Adventures of an Old Sea Dog;
• the first two books in Barry Mathias's Ancient Bloodlines Trilogy
• Naturalist David Stirling's Birds, Beasts and a Bike Under the Southern Cross;
• Bruce Batchelor's Nine Dog Winter;
• the first of Martha Goguen's Dream, Believe, Achieve series of children's books, entitled Emily;
• High vibrational healer Nadine Mercey's Deeper Souls, Less Shoes;
• Mary-Jane Bateman and Bruce Fogel's Knowledge of Oneness: Letters of Enlightenment from Beyond the Veil.
• Book Marketing DeMystified by Bruce Batchelor,
• The Onion Files by Major General Val Pattee.

Our books are doing splendidly, following their marketing plans and delivering regular royalties to the authors.

AUTHORS: You are invited to submit your manuscripts.

Agio's founders, Bruce and Marsha Batchelor, having published thousands of books since 1975 through previous ventures, launched a new publishing service in 2007: Agio Publishing House, with its head office in Victoria, BC, Canada. We have since moved ourselves and Agio's office to Gabriola Island, BC, where we enjoy living on the unceded ancestral territories of the Snuneymuxw people

Bruce is the inventor/ developer of the print-on-demand (POD) publishing approach that has enabled over 600,000 authors worldwide to be published. From their experience working with authors from over 100 countries, Bruce and Marsha know there is a need to take publishing to the next stage. With the opening of Agio, they have created a highly innovative, specialized publishing service for discerning authors who wish to have a beautiful book launched with an effective, personalized marketing program. Under the expert guidance of these highly respected industry veterans, you can join the ranks of independent ("indie") authors who are re-defining the book industry – in much the same way that indie filmmakers are bringing new life to the movie business.

Many authors work directly with Bruce Batchelor, an acknowledged leader in the publishing world, to research and plan the optimal marketing mix for his or her book. Publishing costs are jointly underwritten by Agio and the author, making this a truly collaborative venture of shared responsibilities, investment and decision-making. Typically Bruce will edit the manuscript through the line edit and proofing stages.

Cover design and inside page layout are performed by award-winning graphic designer Marsha Batchelor. (Marsha shown in photo at right with her brother, illustrator Stewart McGillis. To see samples of Marsha's artwork and designs, please go to Marsha Batchelor Art & Design Samples.)

Bruce then works with the author on the implementation of the book's multi-faceted marketing campaign. Marketing includes such cost-efficient and cutting-edge tactics as simultaneously releasing paperback and eBook editions, then adding an audio book edition (distributed as a series of podcast episodes) and maybe a hardcover print edition too. Publicity will build from local and niche media coverage to wider audiences, including Internet awareness. Some authors have a blog or website to promote and interact with readers and journalists. Each author's aspirations and capabilities provide opportunities to work with different marketing tactics -- some cutting-edge and others quite traditional. The marketing mix components are described in Bruce's own book, Book Marketing DeMystified.

Agio books are competitively priced in bookstores. As the author, you will earn a royalty percentage on book sales that is substantially higher than what you would receive from other publishing houses. You retain full copyright to the manuscript and to your subsequent writings – this is of great importance if your plan is to use Agio's production and marketing expertise as a springboard to selling future rights to a large publisher, film producer or other media company.

To be able to fully customize our service and work personally with each author, we generally accept no more than one new authors each month.

For more detail about being published through Agio Publishing House's collaborative publishing approach, please go to Services: Introduction

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