If you wish to hear back from us, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission. If you are submitting poems, please include 3-4 poems. Please include a cover letter describing your submission, along with the first 50 pages of the manuscript. All submissions must be submitted through the mail-we do not accept electronic submissions, or submissions delivered in person. Unsolicited submissions are accepted at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Scroll down to the word ‘Editorial’ and you’ll find this: The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s books. We hope that you will embrace our offer to submit your work to HarperLegend. If you are one of these folks, we want to help your work reach the world. We know that there are many many writers out there who work in this genre. It just means they’re closed.Īll of their works have spiritual underpinnings akin to The Life of Pi, The Screwtape Letters, etc.įrom their site: HarperLegend seeks to discover and publish new authors of visionary and transformational fiction in the digital first format. They occasionally shut this page and it’ll seem like an error. Scroll to the bottom to find their submission info.Ī digital-only imprint focused on science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles. The average length of the novels they publish varies, but is almost never fewer than 80,000 words. No short story collections, novellas, or poetry. From their page: We are looking for dynamic and diverse voices, compelling stories, and authors who are ready to build their brand.ĭAW accepts unsolicited submissions of science fiction and fantasy novels. The SMP Swerve team seeks for romance authors. You can read more about the initial controversy here.Ī digital first imprint. Their contract was a point of contention for a long time, and royalties are split 50/50 with no advance, but it’s a viable way to get your book out there and start getting fans. Loveswept and Flirt, Penguin/Random Houseĭigital-only imprints focused on romance and women’s fiction titles. They also accept unagented submissions in a wide range of genres for our digital-first single-title imprint, Carina Press. Make sure and read carefully and scroll to the bottom to find the imprints that take unagented submissions. So many, in fact, that they have a list of their imprints to submit to with subbmission guidelines here. Novellas should be 25,000-50,000 words.īig, high concept historical and contemporary romances! Primarily, inclusive and diverse romances that reflect our world–all sexualities, races, ethnicities, religions, genders, body types, disabilities, and ages!Īll sub-genres of romance. They do not accept YA, fantasy, mystery, general fiction, or nonfiction. Novels should be between 50,000-100,000 words. They’re interested in all styles of romance, particularly contemporary, diverse reads, romantic suspense, cowboys, historicals, and paranormal. They accept thriller, mystery, or suspense novel manuscripts.įorever and Forever Yours, imprints of Hachette Book Group, Grand Central Publishing. Their submissions guidelines can be found if you scroll down this page.Ī digital-only imprint focused on mystery and thriller fiction titles. They accept submissions in science fiction and fantasy, fiction of all other types including but not limited to general fiction, historical fiction, horror, mystery, paranormal, suspense/thriller, urban fantasy, and women’s fiction. Children’s and Young Adult books for the chapter book, middle grade, and young adult audiences. You can download their submission guidelines here. They produce hardbacks of Picture Book, Middle Grade, and Young Adult Do your homework and read the submission pages carefully!Īnother alternative are mid-size or smaller, independent publishers that can help you garner a fan base that can help you get an agent or bigger deal later on.ĭial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin/Random House □ You can follow them on social media to see when they reopen.Īlso, take note that several of them do not read queries but only take pages or the full manuscript via submission forms. Most of these publishers close on occasion and then reopen when they’ve sorted through their slush. Go one route or the other, or exhaust one and then the other. Remember, it’s best not to query agents and publishers at the same time. Some of them even take books on that have been previously self or traditionally published, as long as you have the rights back. If you’re looking for an alternative to self-publishing to get your book out there, you might consider these imprints. We don’t all have the luxury to find an agent who loves our manuscript the way we hoped they would. While I do think getting an agent is the best route to go…
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