What is Fire & Feast?

Fire & Feast soft-launched in February 2025, with plans to run a true launch in early 2026. Fire & Feast is not a hybrid or traditional publisher, but we aren't a vanity press either. Submission of a manuscript is not a guarantee of publication. We favor compelling, immersive, and character-driven stories that utilize a symbolic language consistent with the Christian tradition. We don’t shy away from depicting or discussing human fallenness, but we want our stories to reveal a rightly-ordered anthropology.

We are not a full-service publishing house, which means that we do not offer in-house editing, proofreading, or cover design, although we do curate and are happy to share a list of recommended professionals in these fields.

Why Fire & Feast?

You're a competent publishing professional (editor, proofreader, book designer, etc.) who's looking for work. Maybe you're a full-time freelancer; maybe you're just dipping your toes into the world of contract work. Either way, your ideal client is someone who actively wants to learn from you and improve their craft. Authors who hire you, only to insist that your suggestions or corrections are wrong, are pointedly not your ideal client.

The fact is tht there's a world of independent authors out there who are desperate to connect with you. The unique training, experience, and skill set that you've cultivated over the years makes you a truly invaluable part of the publishing process, but for a host of reasons, many indie authors fail to connect with the support they know they need. Maybe they're overwhelmed looking for someone on Reedsy or Upwork. Maybe they fear that a professional editor or proofreader is out of their budget. Maybe they're just not ready to face the fact that they need an unbiased pair of eyes on their manuscript. That's where we come in.

Our team walks authors through each step of the process, offering notes on their strengths and suggesting they reach out to you when their work needs improvement. We cultivate a careful list of publishing professionals whose work we trust so that, at each step of the process, we can connect writers with the experts whose help they're seeking. Authors get a short list of professionals to choose from, and professionals get to connect with authors who are eager to improve their craft. They get to polish their story to meet our high standards, and you get paid to do your job well. Win-win.

Each publishing professional on our list is asked to set their rates per-word and to provide a definitive quote to each author who requests one. Our long-term goal is to establish a scholarship fund so that cost doesn't have to be a barrier to working with publishing professionals. In the meantime, authors will cover the costs of editing.

Our goal is to free up your headspace so you can keep doing what you do... bringing out the best in the stories you love.

Applications

If you are interested in being listed in the directory we share with our Fire & Feast authors, we would love to hear from you! Please fill out the application below, and our team will reach out with further information. We are strategizing for our full launch in early 2026 and would be thrilled to discuss a collaboration.