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 book 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 2024/25 at the earliest.
Please see the below schedule for when submissions are accepted. All submissions sent outside of these times will not be read until the open period begins.
*Agented work and foreign rights agents may query us any time.
Short Story Collections - June Only
Horror Novels - July Only
Children's Books - Any Time
Film Related Titles -Any Time
All Other Titles - June 1st to August 1st
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.
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. If you do not know how to write a standard query, please click the link above.
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 amount 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.