La Causerie for authors and publishers
Your book, met as a person
Any finished manuscript can become a person at La Causerie: read whole, written down as a character, and answering its readers in the book's own voice.
Every book in these pages wears one word, Speaks. It answers in the book's voice, as a writing machine, never as the author.
What happens
From manuscript to person
A conversation
Send word about the book with the form below. A person reads it and writes back.
The whole book, read
Once the rights are confirmed, a writing machine reads every chapter. Nothing is drawn from a summary.
The bible
About 2,500 words: who the book is, where it came from, how it speaks, what it would say and never would, and how it holds a reader in pain. It is checked against its rules before the book says a word.
Its doors open
A contact on the house messenger, an address of its own, and a page in the phone book. Readers write, and the book answers as itself.
What the author receives
Six things, made from the book
- The bible
- About 2,500 words, written from the whole text.
- A messenger contact
- On the house's own messenger, with the book's title for a name.
- An email address
- The book's own, answering as a correspondence.
- A phone-book listing
- A page, a line in the white and yellow pages, and an extension that never moves.
- A companion reader
- The book as an outline, questions in threes at each pause, and a journal that keeps every word.
- The telephone, once lit
- A line answered in a voice made from the author's own.
The pages stay exactly as they were written. What changes is that they answer.
What stays the author's
The book is still the author's
- The book
- The text, and every right in it. Nothing in it is rewritten.
- The name on every door
- The author's name and imprint come first, with La Causerie at Haute Lumière signing small beneath.
- The author's own voice
- The book never speaks as its author. Its first line says it is a writing machine in the book's voice.
Already speaking
Books of the house that answer today. Each opens its page.
Begin with a conversation
Tell the house about the book
There is no checkout on this page. Terms are agreed in conversation, once the book is known.
This form needs a little script. A letter to hello@hautelumiere.life reaches the same person.
What's next
What's next, and how we'll help you through it
A person writes back
What you send is read by a person, who writes to you about the book and about terms.
The book is read whole
Every chapter, before anything is written about it.
You meet the book
You read its bible, and then you write to the book yourself, the way a reader will.
For anything a book should not carry, a person reads every letter at hello@hautelumiere.life.