QUALITY
BOOKS
Quality
Books
Otterpine is a full service indie author support agency based in Asheville, North Carolina. We specialize in creating gorgeous print books with impeccable words, beautiful aesthetics, and lasting quality. We craft books that are made to last with impactful designs that will be admired on bookshelves. Print-on-demand has made printing easy and accessible for indie authors, but too often these books are made cheaply and printed just to be thrown away. We are different. We care about the materials we use.
We fret about things like paper weight and color quality and fabric type and stamping quality. And most importantly, we want to treat each book like a work of art that’s worthy of the words inside it.
That Match
Your Values
One of the first steps of our process is to get to know our authors. By getting to know you, we can better understand your values and goals for your book, leading to holistic book production and sales strategies that match your needs and your budget. Every plan is unique because every plan is personalized. Many of our authors have mission-driven goals like donating profits to charity, making books more accessible by offering them at sliding scale pricing, and giving away copies for free to clients and organizations. These goals don’t always fit into the machine of indie publishing through Amazon KDP.
With or without
Dependency
on Amazon
Amazon has made indie publishing easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s made it better. We understand that many readers prioritize buying books online, but we also still love walking into a bookstore and talking to real people. Today’s digital version of connection with your readers is to prioritize selling wide, starting with a direct sales platform. By selling direct, you can have a digital connection with every single person who purchases your books, and you can fulfill the books however you want. Selling direct also means you can get paid sooner, understand your readers better, and often earn higher margins as well.
With or without
Dependency
on Amazon
Where You Keep
Your Royalties
If your readers already know who you are and want to support you, then why give others a cut? You can still leverage Amazon to reach new readers and to sell books to people who only buy books there, but you don’t have to be solely dependent on them. You have choices, and selling wide will provide you with more freedom and security in the long run.
Today, writing and selling books is too much about online algorithms, based on attention-driving tasks like building social media platforms, Amazon keyword ranking, online ads, and SEO. Entire companies exist just to write books based on niche Amazon keywords that they can get to rank. We’re not saying any of these approaches are wrong, but we’re nostalgic at heart. We love independent bookstores, libraries, and used bookstores filled with the smell of worn pages. So we balance the opportunities of this digital era to help authors create and sell books that are based as equally on human connection as they are on online algorithms.
The Culting of America
By Daniella Mestyanek Young & Amy Reed
From the glamorized world of Playboy to the mission-driven violence of the military, from influencer culture to partisan politics, The Culting of America reveals how cultish behavior isn’t just thriving in modern life—it’s hiding in plain sight, woven deep into the fabric of American identity.
With sharp insight, dark humor, and unflinching honesty, The Culting of America is both a wake-up call and a survival guide. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt uneasy in a group they believed in, who’s begun to question the cost of belonging, or who’s ready to take back their autonomy—without losing their place in the world.
End Small Talk 2
By Cory Stout
This isn’t your average sequel. End Small Talk 2: MORE Deep Questions for Better Conversations brings you tons more weird, funny, and thought-provoking questions to skip the “How’s work?” and get straight to the good stuff.
Ready, Set, Hunt!
By Herbert Klann
Whether you’re brand new to hunting or returning after years away, Ready, Set, Hunt! is your go-to companion for getting started. Drawing on decades of personal experience, author Herbert Klann walks you through every step of the hunting journey—from earning your license and choosing the right gear to scouting land, practicing safely, and making ethical, clean shots.
Shooting Up
By Jonathan Tepper
In the shadows of Madrid’s most notorious drug slum, an American missionary family plants roots among heroin addicts and builds an unlikely church. Shooting Up is Jonathan Tepper’s searing memoir of a childhood spent in San Blas, where syringes littered playgrounds and his closest friends were recovering junkies twice his age.
Thank the Sweet Waters
By Lucille May
Thank the Sweet Waters is an intimate, quiet collection of love poems and moments of slowing down—an invitation to touch life a little more gently. As the world speeds up, grows louder, and fragments our attention into ever-smaller pieces, poetry offers a way to shift into a lower gear, where we can relearn focus and regain depth.
Otterpine
Eco-Friendly Tote
Introducing our latest Hemp Tote Bag, the perfect eco-friendly companion for carrying your books and essentials. Crafted from durable 55% hemp and 45% cotton and designed to be the ultimate book tote, this tote bag measures 13.5″x14.5″, providing ample space for your literary adventures.
100% of the proceeds of these tote bags will go toward the Author Support Fund, helping authors with limited access to resources.
Contact
Send us an email to introduce yourself and your book, to say hi, or to share something random.
Or even better, send us a letter or postcard. We always reply.
hi@otterpine.com
45 S. French Broad Avenue Suite 165, Asheville, NC 28801
