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Konquered Press
Books Built for Public Life.
Konquered Press is a scholar-led independent publishing house for peer-reviewed public scholarship, serious nonfiction, leadership frameworks, cultural analysis, and field-tested books built to move from the page into institutions, classrooms, stages, media, and public life.
What We Publish
Serious books for readers who need more than inspiration.
Konquered Press publishes books that carry intellectual weight, public urgency, and practical use.
Public Scholarship
Peer-reviewed books that translate research, history, ethics, law, health, culture, and institutional life for public audiences.
Leadership Frameworks
Field-tested systems for executives, educators, clinicians, teams, organizations, and movement leaders.
Narrative Nonfiction
Memoir, testimony, cultural criticism, and witness texts that treat lived experience as evidence without abandoning rigor.
Briefs + Field Guides
Short-form reports, teaching tools, playbooks, discussion guides, and institutional learning companions.
Peer Review + Editorial Integrity
We did not leave standards behind. We built a structure to carry them into public life.
Konquered Press is building a transparent review model for serious public scholarship. Books designated as peer reviewed undergo external review by qualified scholars, practitioners, subject-matter experts, and public-impact reviewers.
Featured Releases
Books that move from the page to the room.
Built for individual readers, leadership teams, classrooms, conferences, media, and institutional learning.
Batteries Not Included
A leadership and organizational performance book about the hidden power systems that determine whether people, teams, and institutions can actually execute under pressure.
I Ain’t Woke, I Just Can’t Sleep
A work of public scholarship blending memoir, medical sociology, medical history, racism and health, law, Black life, institutional rupture, and the politics of rest.
Build the Review Architecture
Join the Konquered Press review community.
We are inviting scholars, clinicians, historians, legal thinkers, public health experts, cultural critics, editors, and community practitioners to help build a rigorous independent model for public scholarship.
Editorial and Peer Review Council
For senior scholars, public intellectuals, editors, and practitioners who advise the press, strengthen review standards, and support credible public scholarship.
Inquire About the CouncilManuscript Reviewer Pool
For scholars, practitioners, and expert readers available to review manuscripts, proposals, briefs, and field guides in their areas of expertise.
Become a ReviewerBookstores · Media · Institutions
One press. Multiple pathways.
Konquered Press supports readers, retailers, institutions, hosts, and organizations with clear next steps.
Bookstores
ISBN metadata, sell sheets, author event copy, retail positioning, and direct inquiry support.
Media + Podcasts
Author bio, press angles, interview topics, book summaries, images, and timely commentary.
Bulk Orders
Conference bundles, classroom adoption, team learning packages, leadership cohorts, and keynote companions.
Speaking + Events
Book talks, keynote companions, moderated conversations, workshops, and institutional learning sessions.
Why Independent · Why Peer Reviewed · Why Now
Urgent scholarship should not have to choose between rigor and reach.
Some books need citations, review, and intellectual seriousness. They also need to be readable, affordable, teachable, and available to the communities most affected by the questions they raise.
Our Publishing Standards
Rigor you can see.
Konquered Press is developing a visible standards system for public scholarship and serious nonfiction.
External Review
Qualified reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on expertise, relevance, accuracy, and contribution.
Professional Editing
Books move through developmental refinement, copyediting, formatting, and production review.
Citation Integrity
Historical, legal, medical, sociological, and factual claims are supported through responsible sourcing.
Ethical Framing
Books are reviewed for overclaiming, harm, representation, community impact, and responsible argument.
Public Accessibility
Serious work should be clear, readable, teachable, and useful beyond the narrow academic shelf.
Institutional Usefulness
Books are built to support classrooms, leadership teams, conferences, learning cohorts, and public dialogue.
Konquered Press
Books built for the page, the stage, and the system.
Buy the books, request assets, order for your organization, invite Dr. Jenkins to speak, or join the review community helping shape the next generation of public scholarship.
Konquered Press
Konquered Press: Ideas that become infrastructure. Konquered Press marks the next expansion of Konquered: a move from strategy and systems work into a publishing platform for ideas that help people understand pressure, power, institutions, justice, health, performance, and human consequence.
Two books. One body of work.
These inaugural titles carry two connected lanes of the Konquered Press platform: systems under pressure and the human consequences of what institutions fail to repair.
Batteries Not Included
Power. Pressure. Proof.
A book for leaders, builders, strategists, educators, clinicians, founders, managers, and operators who have seen a promise fail even when the organization appeared to have everything it needed.
- Leadership Teams
- Executive Retreats
- Healthcare Systems
- Public Sector
- Team Learning
I Ain’t Woke; I Just Can’t Sleep
Racism, Resilience, and the Rest that Eludes Us All
A powerful book about what keeps us awake at night and what it takes to find rest in racism’s wake. It is written for readers, educators, communities, classrooms, churches, book clubs, and justice fighters.
- Book Clubs
- Classrooms
- Churches
- Community Forums
- Healing Spaces
Bring the work into the room.
For bulk orders, bookstore inquiries, classroom adoption, keynote companions, podcast conversations, media requests, and institutional learning, Konquered Press is built to help the work travel.
