Crossroads Publishing Group
§ Crossings · The short-form line
For the turn you're in, from someone who's crossed it.
Crossings are short, beautiful hardbacks for the turning points of a life, the kind where everything changed, all at once or by degrees. One threshold, one sitting, kept on the shelf. They are the most accessible way to publish with Crossroads, and honestly the books people actually finish.
One threshold, walked beside a reader who is standing in it.
A Crossings book takes a single crossroads moment in a life, the empty house, the diagnosis, the faith you can no longer hold the old way, the work that stopped fitting, the second half of life, and it walks beside a reader who is standing at that same threshold right now.
- One threshold, named. Not a topic, a turn. One hinge, not a survey.
- Written for the reader who is in it. It finds someone at the fork and stands next to them.
- It earns its shortness. Sixty to ninety pages because the truth is concentrated, not because the book is thin. One sitting, one true thing, all the way down.
- It has been lived, not lectured. The writer has stood where the reader stands, or thought the question to the bone, always with literary care.
- It leaves the reader steadier. Not solved. Accompanied, seen, and able to stand in the passage differently.
Written from the far side of a turning point, by someone who lived it, for someone still in it.
A library you grow into, not a series you binge.
Each book in the line is a different turn of a life. You do not buy the set at once. You reach for the one that matches the crossing you are in, the way you reach for the right poem, and it helps. Then the next time a life turns, a parent dies, a child leaves, a calling changes, you already know where to go.
Over the years the shelf fills, one threshold at a time. The books share a form and a spine, so you know a Crossings book on sight, and it becomes the most natural gift in the world: the right one for the threshold someone you love is standing in.
Small, beautiful, and built to be kept.
Every book in the line is a real Crossroads book, published under the imprint, with the full treatment in a distinctive short-form package.
The most accessible way to publish with us.
$4,500, about eight to twelve weeks from start to a finished book. A short book costs less to make than a full one, but it sells for the same price as any book and it gets read, which is why it is the smartest path for a single, sharp idea. Before we begin, the founder reads what you have and names exactly what the book needs.
Have a single idea you keep coming back to? It may already belong in Crossings.
Crossings is open to any writer with one true threshold to cross. Our founding cohort is a women-only way in; the line itself is for everyone.
One idea. One short, beautiful book. Let's find it.
A free 20-minute call. Tell us the threshold you keep circling, and we will tell you, plainly, whether it belongs in Crossings and what the next move looks like.