About Us

Professional Self-Publishing Services

Parachute Publishing is a small, fully independent book publisher based in Portsmouth, UK. Run by a husband and wife team, our approach is personal and designed to give authors a seamless self-publishing experience.

Happy clients include The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Hugo Boss and the Royal Navy, as well as hundreds of first time authors.

Our Founding Team

Dan Bernard

Dan moved into publishing in 2009 after a successful career in photography, graphic design and film.

His passion is in helping self-publishers to realise their creative vision, and is proud that so many of the clients he's worked with since the first in 2009 have returned to publish with him over and over.

Gail Baird

Gail brings a wealth of experience in marketing, communications and design - all of which perfectly complement the world of self-publishing.

If you're looking for help with promoting your book or finding your audience, Gail's expertise will be invaluable.

Our Approach

For more than 15 years, we have been successfully publishing books for hundreds of authors: memoirs, fiction, history, science fiction and much, much more.

We believe that self-publishing should be accessible and affordable to everyone. We know how important creative control is to an author, and see our role to be that of a guide and facilitator, using our experience to ensure each and every book published with us is produced to a standard that will sit happily on the shelf of any leading book shop.

We also believe that authors should retain all rights to their work, and keep 100% of the profit from their success - so we operate differently to many publishers, and charge a fair and transparent price for the work we do and you hold on to all rights and royalties once published.

The Household Cavalry

Gunwharf Quays

Hugo Boss

The Royal Navy

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