Experience before explanation.
The book should let recognition arrive before it tells the reader what recognition is supposed to mean.
Publishing imprint
Inner Order
Press.
The publishing imprint behind The Lantern—a home for its editions and related literary work, built to let the books remain books.
Inner Order
Press
The Lantern
Publishing · Stewardship · Return
Why a press?
A book should be allowed to become a place.
Inner Order Press exists to give the literary work a careful home: a place where language, sequence, typography, image, and physical form can be stewarded as parts of the same encounter.
The imprint is not meant to stand between the reader and the work. If it does its job well, attention passes through the publisher and returns to the page—and eventually beyond the page.
Publishing commitments
What the imprint is here to protect.
The reader remains the protagonist.
The work may guide, frame, question, and accompany. It should not require the reader to become smaller so the book can appear larger.
The world is the final chapter.
The measure of a field guide is not how long it keeps someone inside the book, but what becomes visible after the book is closed.
Current body of work
The Lantern.
The Lantern is the current publishing project of Inner Order Press: a five-mountain series of literary field guides for the inner landscape.
- IIdentityThe First Mountain
- IIHeartmindThe Second Mountain
- IIICollectionThe Third Mountain
- IVPower FormThe Fourth Mountain
- VPersonalityThe Fifth Mountain
The colophon
The imprint should be visible enough to take responsibility, and quiet enough to let the work speak.
Series
The Lantern
Author
Christopher Jerome MacIsaac
Publisher
Inner Order Press
Wider context
IOIM
Booksellers · reviewers · rights
Publishing inquiries.
Edition, availability, review-copy, bookselling, permissions, and rights information is handled title by title so that the details supplied are current to the work being discussed.
Contact the press
Until the contact form is opened, this route may remain unavailable on staging.
Where the imprint ends
The press serves the journey.
Begin with the books. The publishing machinery should recede behind them.