Who are we?

P'kaboo is an independent publishing company started in 2009 by a handful of authors, graphic designers and artists. Having started small, P'kaboo is steadily picking up more titles and authors.

A bit of history

We started in August 2009 with a launch... of a paperback book, "The Mystery of the Solar Wind", at the Lynnwood Library, Pretoria. The launch was also the launch of our company.

Since then, we have hosted a fair number of launches and promotions. We have grown from two authors to several, added music books, audio CDs and multimedia to our selection, and learned how to create ebooks. We teamed up with a literary agency in Scotland who represents us in the UK; and our books are sold in many diverse shops and stocked by various libraries and school libraries on both hemispheres. Two of our authors are listed in The South African Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Many of our titles are available on Amazon, both in kindle book and paperback. Our genres have grown from one (YA) to ten.

Our history is still young. Join us while it's still the early days. Be an original P'kaboo author.

Read more on the P'kaboo Blog.

Our Vision:

Reading, art and music build creative thinking, problem solving abilities and a questioning mind. We are envisioning a young generation that finds joy again in reading fresh new stories with real content that gives food for thought. For this reason our highest priority is to find compellingly written stories with excellent storylines.

Our Mission for Readers:

To find you that unique book you would not find on a mainstream press.

Our authors have fresh, entertaining styles, uncomplicated by the over-styling practices in use at larger publishers. During professional editing, we work closely with the authors so that the story retains all of its character. When you read a P'kaboo title, you hear it straight from the author.

We provide the reader with lots of fresh crispy reads, available as ebooks for your pocket, convenience and technological tastes, and also as paperbacks for that genuine old-fashioned reading feel. In today's world of fast-paced computer games and films there is little that feeds a young imagination as effectively as a genuine book does. Imaginative young people are tomorrow's leaders.

Our Mission for Authors, Artists and Composers:

We provide a launch platform for fresh crispy authors, artists and composers. Contact us to find out more.

Authors, Artists and Composers: