We are a small and independent publishing company and online book store located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We publish books, and we sell new, used and rare books. We are an affiliate of booksellers.ca, a pan-Canadian shop that brings together 150 independent booksellers in one place. Seven Stars Over Publishing Ltd. was founded in June 2022.
Vision: To publish top-notch fiction by Canadian and international authors and to be the preeminent publisher of compelling fiction for girls and women interested, studying and/or working in mathematics, science, space and/or other Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
Values: Support for local independent bookstores. Support for Canadian authors and businesses. Honesty, integrity, and greater profits for authors. Support and promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Use of traditional human-based (not AI) methods for authoring, editing, and publishing books.
At Seven Stars Over Publishing Ltd., we are interested in publishing well-crafted fiction, both genre and non-genre/literary, and poetry, for middle grade, young adult (YA), adult and new adult. The books we select to publish will be built on several of the following pillars.
Pillars:
- Canadian authors
- Canadian settings
- Compelling characters
- Diverse main characters
- Girls in STEM
- Lead characters who are interested, studying and/or working in STEM fields
- Strong and smart female lead characters
- Well written and captivating
Our authors
Jeff Lange
Jeff Lange is the author of Angel Flight. This is a military thriller in the style of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October. In Lange’s novel, Canadian defence scientist Brandon Montgomery is thrust into the middle of a NATO operation enforcing a no-fly zone over Libyan territory. When a crucial RF system fails on the CP-140 maritime patrol aircraft, it is up to Montgomery to find the problem and provide the solution. This book will be published in paperback and ebook formats in December 2026. Jeff is a Canadian author with a Ph.D. in sub-atomic physics.
Randy Rush
Randy Rush is a Canadian author and poet, nature and dog lover. earth, space, light is his first collection of poetry and poetry-inspired short fiction.
J.A. Secker
J.A. Secker is a Canadian author and scientist with B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in physics and astronomy. Emily Jayne and the Kairos Codex and Emily Jayne and the Symbolic Species are his first two novels.
Submissions
Why consider publishing your book through Seven Stars Over?
- We maximise profit for the author.
- We support print and eBook formats.
- We sell our books directly from the Seven Stars Over Publishing Ltd. WordPress/WooCommerce platform to maximize profit for the author.
- We provide space for and assistance to our authors to set up their website.
- We give the author a large degree of control in the publication process.
- We aim for a quick turn-around time for review and publication (e.g., six months), but we will take the time to do it right when we are faced with new challenges.
Our current focus is on publishing Angel Flight, a military thriller by Jeff Lange; Emily Jayne and the Symbolic Species, the second book in the Fellowship of the Timeless series by J.A. Secker; and earth space light, a collection of of poetry and poetry-inspired short fiction by Canadian author Randy Rush.
Please note that we are not taking new submissions at this time.
