AuthorScope was born as an idea when our SFO, London-born Author, publisher and literary consultant Ian Graham Leask came up with the name AuthorScope after his writing students lauded the way he “scoped out” their work. Ian had spent a successful decade teaching creative writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and then as a private consultant to serious authors. When he reached the ceiling in that area he side-stepped into publishing.
There Ian met like minded film maker, author, and self-publishing expert Gary Lindberg, and a fusion of thinking took place between them, built on a frustration with the way all aspects of publishing were being conducted. In August 2014 the partners fused the idea of AuthorScope with Gary’s self-publishing imprint Calumet to create a hybrid, acquisitions-based entity called Calumet Editions LLC.. Their company has gone on to successfully publish over a hundred authors, mostly through a joint venture publishing structure.
AuthorScope was always meant to emerge as a creme de la creme self-publishing entity, but the hard work needed to make Calumet Editions a success in the highly competitive world of author services kept stalling its launch. Now it is here.