cliftop publishing
Professional editing, publishing support and book promotion — all in one place.
Cliftop Publishing is an independent imprint and editorial consultancy helping authors create credible books – and supporting small presses with expert guidance from first draft to final publication.
Our Services
Editing
Sharpen your voice, strengthen your story
Print Consultancy
From layout to production, get your book print-ready
PR & Promotion
Build visibility, launch confidently, reach your audience
Authors
At Cliftop Publishing, we blend industry expertise with hands-on indie publishing experience. Whether you’re writing your first book or managing a growing list, we help you create work that stands out and connects with readers.
Not sure what you need?
Tell us where you are in the process and we’ll recommend the best next step.
Books and Projects
Cliftop offers affordable editing, publishing and promotional services, and publishes selected titles shaped through close editorial collaboration and produced to high professional standards.
A bold and chillingly topical work of speculative fiction. Cliftop supported the publisher with editing, cover design, typesetting and launch PR.
A beautifully written and unique limited edition travelogue based on high altitude trekking in the Himalayas to Everest Base Camp in Nepal.
A prescient and deeply human novel of environmental collapse and AI rule – a literary thriller for the climate age, to be published in April 2026.
Articles
Essays, reports and commentary on publishing, editing and the changing landscape of contemporary fiction.
The machines that loved us to death
When Stoke-on-Trent writer Brendan Nugent began sketching the idea for his debut novel The Sentient Ones, he wasn’t just imagining distant galaxies or killer robots, he was thinking of home. Of the red-brick terraces, of the old pottery works, of the canal paths of...
Deadly secrets and dystopian fears
The title of this Newark Book Festival talk – Deadly Secrets and Dystopian Fears – could hardly have been more apt. In the intimate surrounds of the town’s National Civil War Centre, speculative thriller author Eve Smith took centre stage, joining crime writer Eva...
The Water that May Come
The downstairs room at Lark Books in Lincoln was already warm with bookish expectation when the audience reverberated with a low, knowing laugh. On the very day Amy Lilwall was formerly launching her novel The Water That May Come the first named UK storm of the 2025...
Get in touch
For author services, press enquiries or author event bookings, we’d love to hear from you.
Manuscript submissions are by prior arrangement only.