LPP
LONDON PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP
- Consultancy on editorial, production and marketing strategies for books at the individual-title and whole-programme levels.
- High-quality and speedy production work: development editing, copy-editing, typesetting, proofreading, artwork, indexing, project management.
- Management of the printing, order fulfilment and distribution of books; or the production and distribution of eBooks and downloads.
PERSONNEL
Meet the team
Sam Clark
Sam Clark is a director of LPP and provides the company’s production expertise. Sam has been running a successful production company (T&T Productions) since the late 1990s, producing journals and books for many learned societies and publishers, including Princeton University Press, Risk Books and Journals, Agenda Publishing, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, McGill-Queen’s University Press and others. The company has a wealth of experience in dealing directly with authors on a range of production issues, including copy-editing, figure work, design and printing, and they have an excellent team of experienced in-house editors and typesetters proficient in both InDesign and LaTeX. Before establishing T&T, Sam briefly worked in online medical journalism (when “online” was a novelty) after gaining a PhD in organic chemistry from Imperial College.
Richard Baggaley
Richard Baggaley is a director of LPP and has worked in academic publishing for more than forty years. Before establishing LPP with Sam in 2010 he worked for Princeton University Press, where, as Publishing Director for Europe, he established and ran the Press’s first overseas office. Before that he worked for John Wiley & Sons managing the programme in business, economics/finance and psychology before becoming Director of Journals Development. Before that he worked for Open University Press, where he was Editorial Director. In 2017 he set up Canadian publisher McGill-Queen’s University Press’s first overseas editorial office, and he commissioned for them in history and politics until December 2023. He has also worked in psychometric test publishing and currently runs a publishing consultancy RWB Publishing Consultant.
All of the editing and production work for our books is done in the UK. All of our books are also printed in the UK (the photos to the left are of LPP books coming off the presses at Hobbs the Printers Ltd in Southampton, for example), using renewable resources wherever possible: for example, FSC- and/or World Land Trust-certified paper.
I must thank my publishers, London Publishing Partnership, and in particular Sam Clark and Richard Baggaley. They were a pleasure to work with and did a wonderful job of turning my meanderings into something worthy of release to the outside world.
Russell Jones
I am delighted to have worked on this edition of the book with London Publishing Partnership (LPP) led by Richard Baggaley and Sam Clark. Our little venture has indeed been a ”partnership”, conducted in a spirit of mutual trust and co-operation. Richard and Sam have been truly excellent to work with. I trust that readers of the book will notice the high-quality production, for which LPP must take the credit.
Julian Bailey
Fast, thorough, great value – and always cheerful too. The members of the LPP team value their customers, love what they do and are a delight to work with.
Diane Coyle
London Publishing Partnership guided me through the publishing process, and I would like to thank Richard Baggaley for his flexibility and patience in dealing with a first-time author and Sam Clark for the care and effort that he put into improving my original script, which I optimistically thought was closer to the finished article than turned out to be the case. LPP lives up to its name in that Richard and Sam create a true partnership with the author. They are flexible, diligent and experienced. They are very much partners in the complex project of bringing a book to fruition, and in following it long after publication. It is a pleasure to work with LPP. They are open and straightforward.
Neil Monnery
LPP were a genuine partner in supporting me to write what is now a best selling book, The Service Organization. Unlike stories I'd heard of pressure and threat by authors with other publishers, my experience was one of proactive encouragement, responsiveness, thorough and helpful advice. And unlike those who had self published, the support for editing, the print quality of the book itself and distribution support has been top notch. As a first time author I didn't realise all the challenges that can arise, working with LPP helped me create a valuable book without the stress and pain others have felt.
Kate Tarling
I learned so much publishing my first book with London Publishing Partnership. It was fun to work with such professional editors and designers to translate my ideas into a physical book and an audiobook, and fascinating to learn what it takes to send a book out into the world.
Stephanie Hare
LPP are the best. They know publishing inside out, and work with great attention to detail to produce books of the highest quality. And they’re a pleasure to work with
Julian Bailey
When we first decided to try and publish our book, we had no idea how to start. We feel very lucky to have gone on our publication journey with LLP. Richard and Sam exuded professionalism and experience as they guided us through the various stages of the process and we always felt in extremely safe hands. We have been delighted with the quality of the end product.
Charlotte Drake and Jayesh Patel
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