Austin Macauley Publishers

Austin Macauley Publishers Limited is a British publishing company, with offices in London, New York and Sharjah. The company was founded in 2006 and publishes fiction and non-fiction books. It publishes new and established authors. The company publishes books in English and Arabic languages.

Business model
The company operates what it calls a 'hybrid' publishing model, claiming to offer some 'traditional' contracts to prospective authors as well as 'contributory' contracts, in which the author pays a part of the publication cost.

Published authors
Authors published by the company have included:


 * Austin Stevens
 * Carey Blyton
 * Tariq Anwar
 * Javaid Laghari
 * Maryam Saqer Al Qasimi
 * Ira David Wood III
 * Lawrence Salander
 * Oliver Friggieri
 * Bonita Lawrence
 * Simon May
 * Claire Liddell
 * Kevin Lueshing
 * Alexander Matthews

Recognition
Their International Publishing Director is Jade Robertson. She was also listed among 'The 30 Most Influential Women in the Arab World 2019. '

Affiliations
Associated with Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Austin Macauley Publishers is a member of The Publishers Association.

Controversy
Austin Macauley formerly appeared on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) 'Thumbs Down' Publishers List, which, according to the association, contains the companies "about which [they] have received the largest number of serious complaints". More recently, in 2019, the Writer Beware blog (sponsored by the SFWA) reported that Austin Macauley was the vanity publisher which was the subject of the "most reports and questions",  noting that the vast majority of deals involve the authors paying the company to have their book published, while the occasional "fee-free" contract offered to authors is "no bargain". It was also discussed in a report by the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors, in which it was criticised for a lack of transparency regarding the cost to authors of publishing with the company.