Outstanding books and authors on Emerald's roster have included:

Somebody to Love? by Grace Slick with Andrea Cagan (Warner books) Warner Books paid a one million dollar advance for this book.

Story - Substance,Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee (Regan Books/Harper Collins) "Story" received one of the largest advances for a nonfiction book. Today "Story" is integrated into the curriculums at Harvard university, UCLA and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. "Story" hit number two on The Los Angeles Times Bestseller List for many weeks and today it remains a strong seller in hardback. You can find Robert McKee portrayed in the Spike Jonze’s movie “Adaptation”.

Goin Back to Memphis: A Century of Blues, Rock n' Roll and Glorious Soul by James Dickerson (Simon & Schuster)

That's Alright Elvis, The Untold Story of Elvis's First Guitarist and Manager, Scotty Moore as told to James Dickerson (Simon & Schuster)

Dixie's Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement by James Dickerson (ME Sharpe)

Women on Top by James Dickerson (Billboard Books)

The Unimaginable Life by Kenny and Julia Loggins (Avon Books)

Licking Our Wounds by Elise D'Haenes' (The Permanent Press)

Hers I and II - Edited by Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake (Faber and Faber)

Bright's "Best American Erotica (Simon & Schuster)

Live Fast, Die Young, Remembering The Short Life of James Dean by John Gilmore (Thunder's Mouth Press)

Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip (AMOK)

The Secret Life of Colonel Tom Parker: The Carney Who Managed The King by James Dickerson (Billboard Books)

The Astrology of Relationship by Michael Meyers (iUniverse)

A Handbook For the Humanistic Astrologer by Michael Meyers (iUniverse)

Midnight and Chambers - two novels by Steven Wise (Thomas Nelson Publishers)