ABOUT PARASITE PUBLICATIONS:

We are a company dedicated to stories about character and the people who make them come to life.

Mission
Meet Stuey. He's our mascot here at Parasite Publications. Stuey is a brain parasite. Stuey burrows into people's heads and stays there. He takes over your body. He shuts you away from your senses. He talks to you in the darkness. He makes you do things you would never do while you can only watch in horror.

But he's an understandable little monster.

Imagine your favorite action-adventure story. Your favorite romance. Your favorite epic sci-fi. Your favorite thriller. Each one of them is going to have a character that left you breathless, one that had you at the edge of your seat, rooting for, screaming at, and pleading with. Those are the stories that Parasite publishes.

Our goal at Parasite Publications is twofold: First, we want to produce memorable, sympathetic characters that readers will still be thinking about years after finishing our books. Second, we want to create a team of creative minds whose work can be trusted by readers to produce the same kind of character stories they love, time and again. We're forming a club. A logo. A place for readers to go to read books about PEOPLE, not places or machines. A place for character writers to band together and create a brand that means quality to readers. Readers of Parasite books will no longer have to wonder if they're throwing their money away on novels that, even in 150k words, never really get into a character's head.

They never have to wonder, because that's what we're ABOUT. Getting into the character's head. And, if we do our job right, Parasite will get into your head and stay there. Just like Stuey.

Description
We are radical free-thinkers here at Parasite (if you couldn't already tell from the company name). Our mission is very simple. We want to create a publishing company that will stand for character work, and ONLY character work. We also believe that this idea--creating a logo that readers will be able to look at and automatically know to be a quality character story--can change everything. We w
ant to take this idea and go up against the titans... And win.

Remember the radical free-thinkers thing? Here's where it really gets interesting. Parasite isn't out to make money. It takes 5% of what comes in to upkeep websites, pay licensing, and keep itself afloat. 10% goes to advertising. The rest goes to the people. (Artists, editors, tech dudes, copyeditors, and of course writers.) Everyone who works at Parasite gets a percentage of Parasite's income. (Not profits, income.) Every writer, every artists, every voice-actor, every editor, every proof-reader... Every one of them gets a percentage of the final product they helped to create. There's no nine-to-fives here (though everyone at Parasite seems to be pulling 14 hour days anyway). There's no drudgery, no errand-monkeys, no cubes, no minions. (Well, maybe we have a few minions, but they're usually of the reader types...) We are all dedicated to producing the finest stories and comics because we're just like you--we squee and go all weak-kneed at a good character, and all of us are willing to try something radically new to face those giants that have, for decades, held publishing in an iron grip.

And here's Parasite's biggest difference: Instead of throwing money at corporate shareholders and treating our authors as a resource that can produce X product in Y amount of time for Z amount of capital, we, like our mascot, are all about character. We like people, and we want to make sure they get the most out of what they produce so that they can, gee, support their families and pay their bills. We want to invest in them. We want to help them grow and thrive, and to hone their crafts any way we can. We want to create long-term relationships between everyone who works at our company. Because, ultimately, we are a company about character.

If you or someone you know would like to join us in this venture, shoot us an email! parasitepubs[at]gmail.com