The house publishes across three imprints, each a different form of the same conviction that the working world deserves well-made books.
The illustrated imprint. Picture books, graphic editions, and large-format works designed in close collaboration between author and illustration team.
The literary and business imprint. Essays, memoirs, and nonfiction on family enterprise, succession, and the long arc of building things that last.
The recorded imprint. Audiobook editions of every Cordis title alongside original recorded conversations from the editorial office.
The house runs three imprints rather than one undifferentiated list because the three kinds of book it publishes ask for three kinds of making. A picture book is built between an author and an illustration team. A work of nonfiction is edited line by line. A recording is produced in a room with microphones. One list flattens those differences; three imprints keep each form honest to its craft.
Ron Smith founded Cordis House to publish for families, workers, and the businesses they build, and to publish each title to a single standard. The imprints are how that standard holds across very different shelves. We publish under Studio, Press, and Audio so that every reader knows, at a glance, what kind of book they are picking up and how it was made.