California

If you want publishing houses in California, this tag gathers the ones based there, from Los Angeles to the Bay Area and the Central Coast. The list runs from comics and illustrated entertainment books to psychology, business and academic titles, so the state covers more than one kind of reader.

BOOM! Studios and Insight Editions share a shelf with Stanford University Press, and that range is the point: a comics imprint, an illustrated pop-culture house, a scholarly press, and two health-and-growth publishers, Berret-Koehler and New Harbinger, all working from the same state. New York publishing runs on the trade houses of Manhattan; Texas and Florida lean toward regional and Christian lists; Illinois and Pennsylvania carry university presses of their own. What California adds is the entertainment industry next door, which is why licensed comics and film-and-television tie-in books sit comfortably beside clinical psychology and organizational management. A reader who wants a graphic novel, a workbook for anxiety, and a serious academic monograph can find all three under one state tag.