About Wheaton Partners, Inc.

Specialty Trade Publishers


Wheaton Partners, Inc. is a specialty trade book publishing house located in West Des Moines, Iowa. Our books are available to the trade and to major booksellers from Baker & Taylor, our fulfillment center and warehouse in Michigan, or by visiting our ordering website www.ForBetterBooks.com.

Our hallmark: Exceptionally well-made books in concept, content, design and manufacture.

We are proud to print our books at Thomson-Shore, Inc. in Dexter, Michigan, a member of Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit program dedicated to supporting authors, publishers and suppliers in their efforts to reduce the use of fiber obtained from endangered forests. We also print with Signature Book Printers in Maryland and with G&H SOHO, Inc., a short-run, print-on-demand book manufacturer in New Jersey. Our very talented book designers are Katie Fox, Fox Marketing Design, College Station, Texas, and Angela Schmidt, Accent Design, West Des Moines, Iowa.

Our Publishing Focus

Wheaton Partners publishes under a number of imprints, each focused on specific genres of books. To see all of our current titles:  www.ForBetterBooks.com

Campbell & Lewis Publishers concentrates on culinary books, cookbooks and titles exploring the lore and knowledge of specialty ingredients and cuisines, and the reasoned and enlightened approaches to nutrition and dietary moderation while celebrating the wonders of great cooking and the Joys of the Table. Our titles extoll the great traditions of gourmandise. Campbell & Lewis also publishes books of imagistic poetry, particularly that of the Japanese and Chinese poetic traditions. Combining the art of poetry and the elegance of fine book-making, the press continues a long tradition of artisanal publishing.

Direct Academy Press concentrates on books related to direct, multichannel marketing and related business books written by world-class experts. Each title presents highly specialized knowledge and offers a fully furnished, high-level consulting engagement between the covers. Not inexpensive, Direct Academy Press books are however, in every example, the preferred alternative to the $15,000 consultant's solution.

The Rationalist Press concentrates on books on secular humanism, rationalist philosophy and spiritual-intellectual topics and seeks to present a transformational voice of rational thought in the ageless and often irrational debate among Rational Secularists and Evangelical Christians, and others, concerning the nature of beliefs.

Wisteria Lodge Press is dedicated to the publication of reference encyclopedias and pastiches of the great detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Nero Wolfe. Under development is the A to Z encyclopedia of the entire Neronian canon, as well as a major new Sherlock Holmes biographical work.

Custom Edition Press is a full-service custom book imprint serving corporations, associations, institutions and others requiring bespoke publishing. Services including concept, research, writing, editing, design, manufacturing, warehousing and fulfillment are offered to clients. Books can be produced in short runs of 50 to 499 or in longer runs of 500 and more, as required. Binding options include perfect bound and casebound.    


Additionally, Wheaton Partners is associated with MeritDirect Press, www.meritdirect.com, the publishing arm of the partners of MeritDirect, one of the largest direct marketing list brokerage and management firms in the United States. The mission of MeritDirect Press is to create a library of wisdom containing the fundamental tenets of the direct marketing industry written by the best minds in the industry and passed on to the hundreds of clients the firm serves and to the direct marketing and catalog industry as a whole.