Trellis Parchment
An independent publisher for books that live between disciplines.
Why this press exists
There is a particular kind of book that is hard to pitch to a major publisher. It is not a book without a subject — it has a very clear subject. But the subject requires the reader to move between two or more fields, and the publishing industry, which is organized around those fields as marketing categories, does not quite know where to shelve it. The book ends up either squeezed into a category that misrepresents it, or unpublished altogether. Trellis Parchment exists for those books.
We are interested in practitioners who cross lines: the physician who has something to say about law, the engineer who has been thinking carefully about ethics, the historian who can see what the policy analyst is missing. Not the generalist who skims — the specialist who has gone deep in one field and found, at the bottom, a passage that opens into another. That passage is where the interesting books come from.
What we will not publish: books that could have been essays but were padded to book length, books that are primarily credentials (the author has a position; here is their position), books that perform interdisciplinarity without actually doing it. We are also not a platform for argument-as-provocation. The books we are looking for take a long view, use evidence carefully, and trust the reader to reach their own conclusions rather than being steered toward the author's.
We will publish one to three titles a year. That is a constraint we have chosen rather than one imposed on us. A small list means we can give each book the attention it deserves — not only in editing and production, but in the slower work of connecting it to the readers who need it. We are not optimizing for volume. We are optimizing for the book still being read in twenty years.
The imprint is registered in Canada. Our ISBNs are issued under the prefix 979-8-9957574. The first title was assigned ISBN 979-8-9957574-0-5. We distribute primarily through Amazon KDP for print and ebook, with expansion to broader distribution as the list grows.
If you have a manuscript that has found a home nowhere else — not because it isn't good, but because it isn't one thing — we are listening. See the contact page for how to reach us.
Bhaven Murji
Dr. Bhaven Murji is a family physician and writer whose work sits at the intersection of medicine, technology, and governance. He completed his medical training and has spent his career in clinical practice, where the daily work of diagnosis and patient communication gave him a practitioner's eye for the gap between what institutions claim and what they actually do.
He began researching artificial intelligence in medicine during the pandemic years, when the questions the healthcare system was asking about algorithmic decision-making turned out to be identical to questions medical ethics had been asking for decades — and largely failing to answer. That recognition became the intellectual engine of his first book.
His writing proceeds from the conviction that the most important problems in technology are not technical problems. They are problems of judgment, accountability, and the kind of conscience that can hold a decision at arm's length and ask whether it was the right one. Medicine has been wrestling with those problems for as long as medicine has existed, and it has developed frameworks — imperfect, contested, and genuinely hard-won — that the rest of the world is now discovering it needs.
The editorial philosophy of Trellis Parchment is, in this sense, an extension of his clinical practice: the belief that careful attention to a particular case, held long enough, will reveal something general that no amount of theorizing from first principles can find.
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