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Florida has a real literary scene — the country's biggest street book fair in Miami, a state university press in Gainesville, a Sarasota house that has published Florida books for forty years — and very little of it is set up for someone with a finished manuscript, no agent, and a family waiting to hold the book. This page explains which Florida publishers are worth a query, what they take, and how USA Publishing House works with Florida authors remotely from our single office in Norcross, Georgia, at prices that are printed before you call.
Florida's literary history is stranger and richer than the postcard version. Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, the all-Black town north of Orlando that she wrote into Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the town still holds a festival in her name every winter. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote The Yearling at her orange grove in Cross Creek and won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1939. Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote in Key West through most of the 1930s, Tennessee Williams and Elizabeth Bishop lived there too, and the Key West Literary Seminar has brought writers to the island every January since 1983. Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry turned a Miami Herald newsroom into two of the most read comic voices in the country. The training ground is just as deep: the University of Florida's MFA in Gainesville, Florida State's creative writing program in Tallahassee, and MFA programs at the University of Miami, Florida International University, the University of Central Florida, and Florida Atlantic University all turn out new writers every spring. And every November the Miami Book Fair, founded in 1984 by Miami Dade College and the owner of the Books & Books stores, closes off downtown Miami streets for a week of author events that has grown into the largest fair of its kind in the United States.
The publishers are real too, and that is where a new author's search usually stalls. The University Press of Florida in Gainesville publishes scholarly and Florida-history titles, mostly by academics and researchers. Pineapple Press, founded in Sarasota in 1982 and now an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, publishes books about Florida — its nature, history, and travel — and turns down manuscripts that aren't. Mango Publishing in Miami grew quickly on self-help and nonfiction but acquires selectively and expects a platform. Miami is also a center for Spanish-language publishing in the U.S., which helps if you write in Spanish and not at all if you don't. Each of these presses takes a small, specific list. So when a retired nurse in The Villages finishes a memoir, a pastor in Jacksonville has a book of sermons, or a grandmother in Naples finishes a picture book for the grandkids, “book publishers in Florida” returns a list of doors that open a few times a year, usually for someone with an agent, a faculty post, or a manuscript about Florida itself.
That gap is where USA Publishing House works. We are an assisted publisher: you pay once for the work a publishing house does — editing, cover design, interior formatting, ISBN, and distribution to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and 20+ other platforms — and the book comes out under your name with 100% of the rights and royalties staying yours. Since 2017 we have published more than 1,200 authors across the country, and Florida, with roughly one in five residents aged 65 or older according to the Census Bureau, sends us a steady stream of memoirs and family histories.
We would rather say it now than have you discover it later: our only office is at 6010 Singleton Rd, STE 213-109, Norcross, Georgia. We do not have a Miami, Tampa, or Orlando address, and we are not going to rent a Brickell mailbox to look like we do. Some publishing companies do exactly that, and a company willing to fake its address is worth a second look on everything else. Florida authors work with us by phone and email. Our lines are open 11am–8pm Eastern, Monday through Friday, which is your own clock for nearly the whole state; if you're in Pensacola or the western Panhandle, that's 10am–7pm Central. Printed proofs and author copies ship to your door whether that door is in Tallahassee, Fort Myers, Ocala, or Key Largo, and your finished book lists on Amazon and Barnes & Noble the same way a book from any publisher does.
One team handles everything: complete book publishing, children's books with custom illustrations, memoirs and life stories, and Christian publishing. If you'd rather read before you talk, start with our guide to how to publish a book, the plain-English breakdown of what publishing really costs, and the full price list, then book a free consultation when you're ready. Snowbirds who split the year between states will find the same straight answers on our New York, California, and Texas publishing pages.
A real consultant — not an autoresponder — will call you back with your options and your exact price.
No. Our only office is in Norcross, Georgia, and we'd rather say so than list a Miami or Tampa suite number nobody works from. Florida authors work with us by phone and email during hours that match Eastern time for nearly the whole state, and every proof and author copy ships to a Florida address. If a publisher shows you a prestige address, ask who actually answers the door.
If your manuscript is a real fit — Florida history or nature for Pineapple Press, scholarly work for the university press — querying costs nothing but time, and we'd tell you to try. Most first-time manuscripts, especially memoirs, children's books, and faith titles, fall outside those lists. Assisted publishing is the better fit when yours does, or when you'd rather keep your rights and publish on your own timeline than wait a year on replies.
Your book will be listed on Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, and 20+ retail platforms, and any store — Books & Books in Coral Gables, a chain location in Orlando — can order it through standard wholesale channels. What no paid publisher can honestly promise is shelf space; stores choose their own stock. A guaranteed bookstore placement in a sales pitch is a warning sign, not a perk.
The same as anywhere: one payment between $699 and $7,999, currently 50% off this month, covering editing through distribution. There's no Florida surcharge and no markup on shipping proofs. Every package is on our pricing page, the reasoning is in our cost breakdown, and your number goes in writing first.
Yes. Send it however it exists — a Word file, a PDF, scanned or photographed pages, even typed manuscript pages mailed to our Georgia office. We transcribe if needed, then editing, cover design, and formatting move forward by phone and email with your approval at each stage. A printed proof arrives at your door before the book goes live, and a finished manuscript typically becomes a live Amazon listing in about 60 days. Step one is a free consultation.