Publishing solutions

There’s nothing better than a book to mark a company’s anniversary, celebrate a business’s achievement or promote an agency’s capabilities to a wider audience.

We provide a range of professional publishing services to outside bodies, which include but are not limited to:

* project management
* commissioning authors and photographers
* editing, proofreading, indexing
* cover and inside page design
* typesetting and correction
* legal deposits
* drawing up sales and marketing plans
* preparing key selling tools
* presenting the title to the trade
* arranging the printing of the book
* organising launch events
* mailing review copies
* arranging television and radio coverage wherever possible

So if you have an idea for a book, we can make it a reality. The team at Blackstaff has extensive experience of working on all kinds of books, including heavily illustrated coffee table hardbacks and fine edition poetry anthologies. We can manage all stages of production, as well as publicity, marketing and sales.

We have worked with a number of organisations and companies, including Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Belfast Solicitors’ Association, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast City Council, BBC Radio Ulster, Community Relations Council and many more.

We have a flexible approach to each individual project, and we’d be delighted to talk to you about your ideas or answer any questions you may have.

Some recent publishing services projects include:

Strangford: Portrait of an Irish Lough
Alain Le Garsmeur and Ian Hill
Published with the assistance of Northern Ireland Environment Agency (formerly Environment and Heritage Service)




Serving the City: A celebration of sixty-five years of the Belfast Solicitors’ Association
Edited by Don Anderson
Published in association with the Belfast Solicitor’s Association




Belfast City Hall: One hundred years
Gillian McIntosh
Published in association with Belfast City Council




The Blackbird’s Nest: An anthology of poetry from Queen’s University Belfast
Edited by Frank Ormsby
Published in association with Queen’s University Belfast

‘Blackstaff Press and Queen's University have a shared history of successful collaborative ventures. The latest of these was the production of The Blackbird's Nest which was an overwhelming success for the University. Blackstaff Press consistently offer a professional and personal service that is unrivalled in Ireland and Queen’s wishes it well with its new website.’

Tracey McKinney, Publications Manager, Queen's University Belfast