Enabler Publications

Books to feed the Mind and Spirit

Publishing and editorial services

Book sales help keep Alan and his mates at 'Enabler' in a few beers or ciders, but it is through offering publishing and writing services that the bills get paid! Customers include: the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Chartered Institute of Housing, the Council for Environmental education, universities and charities such as Save the Children.

Getting a book from the ideas stage through to a printed, all-singing and dancing publication in the warehouse (or shed), requires all of the following stages. Enabler could help you with all or any of them!

  • Finding authors and discussing ideas and subjects for potential publications.
  • Setting up contracts with authors and fixing timescales.
  • Commissioning artists, illustrators, designers and photographers.
  • Undertaking or commissioning any necessary research.
  • Copy editing.
  • Typesetting and graphic design.
  • Proof reading.
  • Print buying.

Alan has, in past lives, been a publisher with the Scottish Office, Longman, Pitman and Russell House Publishing. His specialist areas of publishing have included:

  1. Social Work
  2. Youth and Community Work
  3. Education
  4. Crime
  5. Drugs
  6. Housing
  7. Health and medical titles
  8. The counterculture/direct action/protest world

Research and writing

Alan works on a very considerable range of projects, often concurrently. For over twenty years plus, Alan has worked with over a thousand authors and partner organisations to produce books, reports and other publications. This network of writers and researchers has enabled (hence the name of the company!) Alan to work on a very considerable range of projects, often concurrently.

At the time of updating this page, for instance, work is being undertaken on five books ranging from specialist materials for work in relation to anti-social behaviour, more reports on mixed income new build estates, a social history about alternative Netherlands and, and………….the Youth Africa Music Experience….and more!

If you're interested in finding out more, give
Enabler Publishing
a ring on 018907 51222,

or email us at adearling@aol.com

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