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Mission

Scrivener Publishing’s mission is to deliver authoritative, high-quality content in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine. We partner with leading authors and editors at the forefront of emerging technologies, systems, and applications. With a proven record of robust growth, innovative publications, and global reach, we remain committed to expanding into new subjects while always putting our authors and editors first.

Core Value

Our slogan, “Putting Authors and Editors First”, says it all. Authors are our source of all content and they are the foundation of our product. We will do everything possible to respect and honor this basic fact, and want them to feel they are being treated well and consulted at all times.

The Name of the Company

According to Wikipedia, the word "scrivener" comes from Middle English "scriveiner" which is an alteration of the obsolete "scrivein", from Anglo-French "escrivein", and from Vulgate Latin "scriban", an alteration of the Latin "scriba" (as scribe). In today's world, the scribes are our valuable authors and the name of the company acknowledges this fact as well as sets the foundation of our values: Putting Authors (and Users) First™.

Meet the Principals

Martin Scrivener

Martin Scrivener is a native of England, a graduate of London School of Journalism, and a 40 year plus veteran of the publishing industry. He began his career in the marketing department with Associated Book Publishers (Chapman & Hall, Methuen) and then moved to Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) in Holland as an acquisitions editor and publisher in both books and journals, mostly in linguistics and humanities. He then moved to Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (sold to Taylor & Francis) as the Managing Director and built this company up from a small journal publisher to a mid-sized publisher of both books and journals through acquisitions as well as organic growth. He then moved to America to assist the startup of an electronic publishing house for journals but funding was withdrawn because of the dot com bust and 9/11. He then moved to William Andrew Publishers (applied technical sciences) as Publisher until it was sold to Elsevier in early 2009. He launched the M & M Scrivener Press imprint in 2005 as a hobby which published books in the humanities and social sciences. Scrivener Publishing began operations in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession.

Phillip Carmical

Phil Carmical founded Scrivener Publishing with co-owner, Martin Scrivener, in March 2009, during the Great Recession, with the hope that there is a bright future. With almost 30 years of experience in publishing, Phil began his career with Gulf Publishing in Houston, Texas, as an acquisitions editor acquiring technical and business books. When Gulf sold their book division to Elsevier in 1999, Phil followed the sale and continued working on the same program he had begun at Gulf. After working as a senior editor at Elsevier for four years, he went back to Gulf Publishing as Publisher, where he re-launched their book division, publishing technical books, primarily in oil and gas. After a short stint at William Andrew, which was also sold to Elsevier in late 2008, Phil and Martin started Scrivener Publishing in early 2009. After 16 years partnering with Wiley, their imprint, Wiley-Scrivener, has published over 1,000 titles and grown into a player on the global stage, publishing books on computer science, materials science, energy, environmental science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and many other topics.