Crossroads Publishing Group
§ The Crossroads Commons · Founding membership
Crossroads Publishing Group is a hybrid publisher of serious nonfiction, founded this year in Chattanooga and organized around three editorial lanes: Conviction, Soundings, and Witness.
The Crossroads Commons is the founding membership for readers who want to be part of what we’re building, not just watch it happen. Every new title shipped to your door on publication day. Your name in the colophon. A seat at the founding.
Limited to the first 50 Founders. Ever.
After fifty Founders, this door closes forever. We’ll announce the count as it fills.
Here’s a pattern worth noticing: serious nonfiction, whatever its topic, keeps arriving at community. Books about leadership end at community. Books about attention, recovery, theology, parenting, loneliness, they all end at community. Sometimes that’s the argument; sometimes it’s where the book lands in spite of itself.
We think that’s not an accident. Community is the actual thing these books are reaching for, the topic is the doorway in. Crossroads is built to take that seriously: every author brings their community to the press, every launch happens inside a real community, and every reader gets a way to belong to the catalog rather than just buy from it.
Most presses sell you books. We’re inviting you to help build a catalog that means something. Founding authors help define what “published by Crossroads” comes to mean. So do founding readers.
Three lanes. These are modes, not topics, the lane is what a book is dominantly doing.
Conviction, books that take a position and defend it.
Soundings, books that sit with a question without rushing to resolve it.
Witness, books that show the reader something they need to see.
The founding-year catalog: William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience (Soundings, forthcoming), Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (Conviction, summer 2026), and Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives (Witness, fall 2026). Original work begins in 2027.
When do I get my first book?
The next Crossroads title ships to you on its publication day. Members may also request any earlier title from the founding year at no charge.
Is this a subscription to The Difficulty?
No, the podcast stays free, always. The Commons is membership in the press itself.
What if I miss a Founder spot?
Patron membership is always open and carries most of the same benefits on an annual basis.
Do you ship internationally?
Yes. International members pay actual shipping costs, billed at checkout.
Can I gift a membership?
Yes, write to chad@crossroadspublishing.group with the recipient’s details.
Is this tax-deductible?
No. The Commons is a membership in a working press, not a charitable donation. You’re not giving, you’re joining.
Can I cancel?
Reader and Patron renew annually; cancel anytime and keep your benefits through the year you’ve paid for. Founder is one payment, for life.
Three tiers. Fifty Founder spots, ever. If you’ve been quietly rooting for a press like this to exist, this is the year to say so.