The house publishes across four imprints, each a different form of the same conviction that the working world deserves well-made books.
The illustrated imprint. Picture books for the children of trade-business families.
The business imprint. Books for owners of founder-led businesses who are not selling, or not selling yet.
The spoken-word imprint. In preparation: an audiobook of Buyer-Ready and a read-along of Hands Like Daddy’s, with the pages turning.
The recorded-music imprint. Original songs and scores that accompany the house's books.
The house runs four imprints rather than one undifferentiated list because the forms it publishes ask for different kinds of making. A picture book is built between an author and an illustrator. A work of nonfiction is edited line by line. A recording is produced in a room with microphones, and a song is written and cut the same way. One list flattens those differences; four 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, Audio, and Music so that every reader knows, at a glance, what kind of work they are picking up and how it was made.