27 Book Publishers in Louisiana

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Louisiana isn't known for book publishing, but there are businesses you can go to to see your manuscript become a publication: 



1) Acadian House Publishing

The house in Lafayette publishes biographies, cookbooks, sports books, etc., relating to south Louisiana. Titles include Blessed Be Jazz, No Baloney On My Boat!, and From Bags to Riches


2) Acadian Museum Editing Services

Also in Lafayette, AMES provides editing, illustration, and publishing services to clients. 


3) Admiralty Record Publishing Company

The publishing company/bookstore in Mandeville (near New Orleans) has published The Admiralty Record and Tom the Good Luck Black Cat


4) Ally-Gator Book Bites

Ally-Gator is a regional children's book publisher in Lake Charles. Titles include Lacie's Star, Sister Mary Button-Drawers, and Where's Roy?


5) Beau Bayou Publishing Company 

BBPC was founded in 1985 in Lafayette and has published five books: Accident and Deception: The Huey Long ShootingBlooming Trees & ShrubsCajun Cuisine; Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie, and File' Gumbo, and My Wars


6) Bonhoeffer Publishing  

Bonhoeffer offers innovative solutions, digital and print media, leadership development, and consulting in Zachary (near Baton Rouge). 


7) Buzzgig

The Shreveport publisher's titles include Teacher's Guide to Copyright (3rd Edition) and Otto the Octopus goes to the Doctorpus


8) Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Division

In addition to law books, the Baton Rouge division also has published WW2 reprints, nautical books, and genealogy books. Titles include LA Corporation Laws, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA) Diving Manual (4th Edition), and Acadian Exiles in Chatellerault


9) Cornerstone Book Publishers

The New Orleans publisher has a repertoire of Masonic, Scottish rite, metaphysical, Rosicrucian, fiction/literature, outdoors/bushcraft, and Louisiana books. Titles include 10,000 Famous Freemasons; American Anarchy; and Camp Cookery


10) Cultivate Press 

Tonia Askins advertises that she can help you self-publish or publish your book in 30 days. Based in Laplace (near New Orleans), her starting rate is $3,500. 


11) Cypress Cove Publishing

The Lafayette company publishes a wide array of fiction and nonfiction, including puzzle books, spiritual books, and cookbooks. Titles include Down-Home Cajun Cooking Favorites, Dad's War Photos, and A House For Eliza


12) Cypress Tree Publishing 

Cypress Tree in Baton Rouge is the publisher of Louisiana Golfer's Paradise: The Audubon Trail and When I Grow Up


13) Dalrymple Press 

Also in Baton Rouge, Dalrymple began in order to help the professors at Louisiana State University. It has since published textbooks that are used in community colleges and four-year universities across the country. 


14) Garrett County Press

The press/bookstore in New Orleans has been in existence since 1997. Titles include In The Weeds, The Bachelor in New Orleans, and Made in America


15) Gulf Coast Legal Publishing 

Also in New Orleans, Gulf Coast was founded with the goal of providing legal professionals and law students with reasonably priced, user-friendly books. Titles include Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure and United States Bankruptcy Code.


16) Kingdom Publishers

Kingdom Publishers is located in forty states, and its Louisiana site is near the small town of Plaucheville. It is a Christian publisher/bookstore. 


17) Lawrence Publishing Company

Lawrence is a Latin American law book publisher in Baton Rouge. Titles include Federal Civil Code of Mexico (English translation), New Civil and Commercial Code of Argentina (English translation), and Civil Code and Family Code of El Salvador (English translation). 


18) LSU Press

This is the university press of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Award-winning titles include The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis, Reconstruction in Alabama, and Bad Girls at Samarcand


19) McGraw-Hill Education

Like Kingdom, McGraw-Hill has many locations across the country. Its Louisiana site is in Baton Rouge. Many of the textbooks you have used likely came from this company. 


20) Pelican Publishing Company

Pelican Publishing in New Orleans is an imprint of Arcadia Publishing (based in Charleston, South Carolina). They publish regional books for children, regarding cooking, are holiday-themed, etc. Its current best-sellers are Cajun Night Before Christmas; In A While, Crocodile; and Impersonal Skill Set For Ministers


21) PEN Publishing Agency 

PEN in Lafayette has titles, such as The Butterfly Effect, The Anatomy of a Book, and Adjusting Your Crown


22) Renaissance Publishing 

This company in New Orleans publishes eight in-house publications and multiple custom publishing for the area. It appears to be known for its cookbooks. 


23) Spirit Wine Publications 

Its name may say otherwise, but they publish books for kids. It is located in Mandeville. 


24) Tootle Time Publishing Co. 

Unlike Spirit Wine, it's unsurprising that Tootle Time is a children's book publisher. Located in Cade (near Lafayette), its titles include the Mr. Tootles series. 


25) UL Press 

This is the university press of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It has books on Acadian and African-American history and culture, Louisiana history, and New Orleans. An upcoming book is Jean Lafitte Revealed


26) UNO Press

This is the university press of the University of New Orleans. Titles include Can Feminism Trump Populism?, I Feel To Believe, and Democracy in Austria


27) Wise Publications 

Wise Publications in Sulphur (near Lake Charles) also serves as a bookstore. They publish a wide variety of regional books in genealogy, theology, self-improvement, etc. 



Comment down below if you want me to write up a list of book publishers for a different state.



- Liv 



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