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Mission

The purpose of Scrivener Publishing is to publish books in the technical applied sciences for both the practitioner in industry and the researcher in academia. This high-quality content is essential to our professional customers and is sold globally as print and electronic as well as in aggregated databases, including Scopus and Web of Science. We believe our content helps businesses and industry achieve cost efficiencies and higher productivity. By partnering with Wiley, the leading engineering publisher, to create our joint imprint, Wiley-Scrivener, Scrivener Publishing offers our authors, editors and contributors, efficient and personalized editorial attention, as well as global marketing, sales, and distribution both in print and digital.

Core Value

Our slogan Putting Authors (and Users) First™ says it all. says it all. Authors are our source of all content and they are the foundation of our product. We will do everything possible to respect and honor this basic fact. We want them to feel they are being treated well and consulted at all times.

The Name of the Company

According to Wikipedia, the word "scrivener" comes from Middle English "scriveiner" which is an alteration of the obsolete "scrivein", from Anglo-French "escrivein", and from Vulgate Latin "scriban", an alteration of the Latin "scriba" (as scribe). In today's world, the scribes are our valuable authors and the name of the company acknowledges this fact as well as sets the foundation of our values: Putting Authors (and Users) First™.

Meet the Principals

Martin Scrivener
Martin ScrivenerMartin Scrivener is a native of England, a graduate of London School of Journalism, and a 40 year plus veteran of the publishing industry. He began his career in the marketing department with Associated Book Publishers (Chapman & Hall, Methuen) and then moved to Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) in Holland as an acquisitions editor and publisher in both books and journals, mostly in linguistics and humanities. He then moved to Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (sold to Taylor & Francis) as the Managing Director and built this company up from a small journal publisher to a mid-sized publisher of both books and journals through acquisitions as well as organic growth. He then moved to America to assist the startup of an electronic publishing house for journals but funding was withdrawn because of the dot com bust and 9/11. He then moved to William Andrew Publishers (applied technical sciences) as Publisher until it was sold to Elsevier in early 2009. He launched the M & M Scrivener Press imprint in 2005 as a hobby which published books in the humanities and social sciences. Scrivener Publishing began operations in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession.

Phillip Carmical
Phillip CarmicalPhil Carmical has over 20 years of publishing experience, which includes being publisher and co-owner of Scrivener Publishing since 2009. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a Masters degree in Classical Languages and Literatures in 1997, he started as an acquisitions editor at Gulf Publishing Company in Houston, Texas. In 1999, he moved to Austin, Texas, as an acquisitions editor for Pro2Net, a pioneering company in the field of online education, focusing mainly on the accounting and finance verticals. In 2001, he started with Elsevier as an acquisitions editor, then senior editor, before going back to Gulf Publishing Company in 2004 as publisher to launch a new book and software division. This success led him to William Andrew Publishers in late 2007 where, as publisher, he founded their new book program in energy, environmental science, sustainability, and industrial health and safety. He still lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Audrey, son, Dashiell, and daughter, Margaret. He competes in marathons and duathlons and coaches runners in his spare time.