Please read ALL of our guidelines. Any submission that does not fit what we print or our requirements will automatically be turned down. We only put out about 20 books a year and get hundreds of submissions, so making sure your book is what we are looking for will help your chances. Please only query during the open submission periods.
*All non-celebrity books we accept now will not come out until 2026 at the earliest.
Please see the below schedule for when submissions are accepted. All submissions sent outside of these times will not be opened unless you are a well established author through traditional publishers.
*Agented work and foreign rights agents may query us any time.
Short Story Collections - Closed Until 2026
Horror Novels - Closed Until 2026
Children's Books - Any Time
Film Related Titles -Any Time
All Other Titles -Closed Until 2026
We do not accept Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, YA, Sci-Fi, Military, Poetry, Gothic Fiction, Children's Chapter Books, Religion, Literary Fiction or Political based books. All other genres are open for submissions. Our main focus is mainstream fiction, horror and biographies/film based books.
**We DO NOT accept anything that uses AI in anyway. Including text, artwork or assisted AI.
AM Ink wants Children's picture books!
Dark Ink wants anything in the horror genre or dark leaning mystery/thrillers or film related titles
Keep in Mind:
*90% of what AM Ink publishes is Children's picture books at this time. Dark Ink only puts out horror and dark thriller/mysteries as well as film based titles. If your book is outside of these categories, you have a 95% chance of being turned down as we focus on those the most. Please look at our catalog to see what we have published in the past to see if your work fits with ours.
Novels, Non-Fiction and Short Story Collections must be over 60,000 words to be considered.
Children's books must be over 24 pages.
We only accept individual short stories during Open Calls for anthologies.
Current Open Calls:
None
Children's book must be fully illustrated to be considered. When submitting a children's story, send us a standard query letter. If we are interested, we will then request to see the artwork and full story.
In the email form above please submit a Standard Query Letter. All queries should include information about your story as well as your bio and where you heard about our company and tell us what genre the book falls into. If you do not know how to write a standard query, please click the link above. We ONLY accept emails through this form, we do not accept physical submissions.
Please do not send us a manuscript or sample chapters unless we request it.
We typically respond to all queries within a month. However, during open submission periods we may take longer due to number of queries we get. If you do not hear from us after eight weeks, feel free to check in on your query.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us using the form above.