About the press
A small press for the practical middle of a life.
General Information is an independent editorial imprint. It publishes short reference guides — plainly written, edited like books, and kept in print.
Notes
General Information publishes short reference books for adults — the useful, the civic, and the domestic. Every title answers the question it was written for and stops. The catalog is small on purpose; a book is added to it only when there is a real gap on the shelf, and only when the editor is willing to read the manuscript three times.
The imprint was founded in 2026 out of a plain observation: the middle of most working lives is spent on questions that have a short, plain-English answer, and there is often nowhere to find one. The bookstores keep the long books. The internet keeps the loud ones. What was missing was a small press that would publish the short book — the one that fits in the middle drawer of a desk and gets consulted on a Sunday.
The name is deliberately dry. "General Information" is what a library counter used to be called; it is what a train-station kiosk is still called in some countries. It describes what these books are — the kind of plain, useful reading you would find behind a counter, handed over by someone who had already read the thing you needed and knew where to point.
The editorial standard is simple. The book must be shorter than it wants to be. It must be readable in one sitting or in six, but never longer. It must be written in the register of a competent editor writing back — warm, plain, faintly dry, never a marketer and never a lifestyle brand. And it must be edited like a book, not published like a blog post.
Every title is a PDF and an ePub, delivered by email. Orders are placed by writing to the editor, and every message is read by the same person who edited the guide. Replies are slow. That is on purpose.
The editorial process
Three reads. One week between the second and the third.
- One editor reads every manuscript at least three times.
- Manuscripts sit for a week between the second and third read; nothing goes to print in a hurry.
- Each guide is edited to a target length — if a chapter can be cut in half, it usually is.
The fourth beat is unwritten: copy is set in Newsreader at a long measure, and the type is asked to do most of the design work.
The colophon
A note on the type.
The display and long-form face is Newsreader, a transitional serif with generous optical sizes — warmer than Times, more functional than Fraunces, and drawn to be read at length. Chrome, nav, and small marks are set in Inter Tight. The italic is Newsreader Italic, opsz 18pt, used sparingly.
The palette is bone paper, navy ink, and one dry cinnabar rule at every seam — used the way an editor uses a red pencil, at kickers and section boundaries. Nothing else is asked to do design work.
Get in touch
General enquiries reach the desk at hello@lovegivers.org. Editorial, manuscripts, and licensing go to editor@lovegivers.org.