Blackhawk Books and Distribution

Blackhawk Books and Distribution, part of the MBLS - Roundhill Publishing Group, is an established and respected publishing house offering a comprehensive range of services for self published authors, established authors, and publishers.

We offer a full publishing service under the imprint Blackhawk Books from manuscript to printer’s PDF and which, includes:
Editing and Proofreading

Expert eyes review your manuscript for spelling, grammatical, and consistency errors, providing a final check before it goes to print.

Manuscript Appraisal

Our manuscript appraisal service provides a professional, in-depth evaluation of your book’s strengths, weaknesses, and publishing readiness, offering clear guidance to elevate your manuscript to its full potential.

Cover Design and Layout

Talented designers offer professional book cover design to make your book stand out on the shelf

Illustration

Professional illustrators bring your manuscript to life with their expertise.

Translating into all official South African languages

We offer professional translation services into all 11 official South African languages to ensure your content is accurate, accessible, and culturally relevant.

Sales, Marketing and Distribution

Blackhawk Books and Distribution actively advertise, market and distribute your work to libraries, education departments, schools and literacy-based NGOs, countrywide. Your work will be entered into our price list and catalogue.

Printing

The printing of books is expensive and often requires substantial sums to be invested upfront. Let us take this burden away from you.

We publish our own titles under the imprints:

  • Thembi and Themba Books
  • Ayanda Books
  • Fireside Stories
  • Roundhill Books Children’s Library
  • Learn to Read – Read to Learn
  • Sammy the Sea Star Series

We publish, print and distribute:

Harry the Hammerhead Shark Series for Wildtrust

  • Harry the Hammerhead Shark Spreads the Good News
  • Harry the Hammerhead Shark Swims down South

The collected works of Raashida Khan

  • Fragrance of Forgiveness
  • The Cursed Touch
  • Mirror Cracked
  • Your voice, My Strength and other Stories
  • Happy Birthday, Raashi

Sammy the Sea Star Series for LM Cubed Publishing

  • Sammy the Sea Star meets Dolphins
  • Sammy the Sea Star meets Sea Turtles
  • Sammy the Sea Star meets Penguins
  • Sammy the Sea Star meets Whales

We distribute the fiction works (sci-fi/fantasy/detective/war and western) of lron Hubbard for Galaxy press - USA

We distribute the children’s books of author Michelle Linde’s Stories by Shelley

We distribute books to schools published by:

Macmillan, Pan Macmillan, Maskew Miller learning, via Afrika, publishers, Jonathan Ball publishers, Oxford University Press, Shuter & Shuter, Jacana Media, Penguin Random House, Cambridge University Press and so many more.