As at April 2023, Book Reality has released 120+ books by 80+ authors located across the USA, UK, Ireland, France, Germany and every state and territory of Australia and has a distributed team of contract editors, designers, publication specialists and marketers. Ian Hooper, founder of Book Reality and Leschenault Press, himself an author, tells the story.

Stringybark Publishing is small bespoke publisher based in Springrange, New South Wales, a rural locality outside Canberra. Created in 2010 by award-winning author and editor, David Vernon, it specialises in publishing short print run and niche publications that large companies consider to be non-commercial.