Protect
Authors from opaque, exploitative, or misleading practices.
The Press
Build a publishing company authors can trust,
and a founder can actually survive.
Sentinel House Press is a founder-led publishing company built for authors who want professional guidance without surrendering control.
SMALL BY DESIGNThe mandate
Literary, intelligent, warm, and commercially honest.
The press exists to help independent authors develop, produce, publish, and market exceptional books while retaining meaningful control over their work.
It rejects two common traps: vague promises to authors and heroic overcommitment by the founder.
The strongest business is not the one that offers everything. It is the one that knows exactly what it does, what it charges, what it refuses, and why authors should trust it.
A press with a sense of place
Proudly based in America’s Hometown.
Plymouth is a place where national myth, local memory, Indigenous history, working-waterfront life, and contemporary community share the same shoreline.
That complexity matters to a publishing company. Good books do not flatten difficult material. They examine it, shape it, and make room for the reader to think.
Read about our Plymouth roots
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Small by design
Enough structure to be reliable. Enough restraint to remain human.
Sentinel House Press is built for a deliberately limited number of active projects, supported by clear scope, milestone payments, documented approvals, trusted contractors, and repeatable systems.
The point is not to imitate a large publisher. The point is to give each book serious attention without turning the founder into a permanent emergency department.
CJCFOUNDER / AUTHOR / PUBLISHING STRATEGIST
Christopher Carazas
The press was built through the work itself.
Christopher developed Sentinel House Press while writing, producing, publishing, distributing, and building the platform for his memoir, Now That I’m Still Here.
That experience crossed writing, editing, design, production, metadata, KDP, IngramSpark, web development, direct sales, retailer pathways, launch strategy, and reader engagement.
The credibility is practical, not miraculous. Sentinel House Press promises informed guidance and professional execution, not enchanted sales outcomes.
The standard
What the brand should feel like, and what it must never become.
LiteraryNot precious
SelectiveNot inaccessible
WarmNot sentimental
RigorousNot corporate
CommercialNot predatory
HonestNot vague
Founder and publishing lead
Built from lived publishing experience.
Christopher Carazas developed, published, distributed, and built the author platform for Now That I’m Still Here. That founding project required editorial judgment, cover and interior production, metadata, KDP and IngramSpark setup, retailer and direct-sale pathways, website development, and ongoing reader communication.
The experience is not presented as a fictional outside-client engagement. It is the press’s first proof of concept and the source of its operating standards.
What Christopher leadsStrategy, author experience, project scope, editorial direction, platform integration, and quality control.
Where specialists may contributeEditing, design, formatting, accessibility, or other production work may involve trusted contractors when the project requires it.
What remains consistentSentinel House Press manages scope, communication, approvals, and final quality across the full engagement.
The goal is not to look like a publishing company.
The goal is to become one that authors trust with their work.