The simplest way is to trawl the internet for other possibilities. You have a wide choice there are several hundred serious publishers in the English language world, 70,000 registered with the main databases, and the number who might publish the occasional book runs to a quarter of a million. If this business doesn't sound as if it's for you, or if we turn the proposal down, I'm sorry we can't help by recommending other publishers. ![]() We only accept one manuscript at a time please do not submit multiple titles. If it looks to us like a good possibility, we'll usually respond in around 24 to 72 hours. ![]() We can't respond to questions like "I've got an idea about writing a book, how do I go about it and would you publish it". It doesn't matter if it's not finished yet, but we require at least 5,000 words. Say something about who it's aimed at, how you reckon it's going to sell, what your qualifications for writing it are and attach as much text as you have (upload as a single Microsoft Word file or PDF you cannot upload multiple files). Even if the publisher has declared it out of stock there will still be copies around with wholesalers and distributors for years to come, at heavily discounted prices, and bringing out the same book with a different ISBN invariably causes confusion and trouble.įirst, find the right imprint for your book. We cannot re-issue books that one of the larger publishers has dropped, or a self-published book. We do not reply to submissions through the post. Our systems are based around all books being available everywhere, for review and for sale. We only publish titles for which we have at least worldwide English-language rights. Around half our new authors are from North America, the others from the UK and most countries where English is a major language. We add around a thousand new "activities" a month to the database, several hundred new contacts, and send out a few hundred review copies a month. Your book will have several pages of its own on our database, with the scheduling and copy visible you can add to it and amend it, monthly sales figures will be there, and all the marketing on every title is visible for you to see. Manuscripts and proofs are exchanged through the database rather than by post or email. There is more about this in the Publishing Guide, in the section on Contracts.Ī criterion for getting published with us is being able to use a database, and to be willing to contribute to it. If you are a first-time fiction author, have little or no experience of the market, and the proposal is likely to be thin on the marketing side, and if you would be offended by being asked to pay a subsidy, please move straight along to another publisher. They are more frequent in fiction, which we find harder to sell than non-fiction. The number of subsidy contracts varies across the imprints. ![]() About one in ten of the titles on the list have a subsidy from the author, directed either towards more editorial or marketing work than we can normally provide. ![]() Depending on how many we think it could sell, we offer varying levels of contract. We only offer to publish if we like the book. The reports assess both the quality of the book and its "marketability". Our readers are experienced, knowledgeable about the market, and usually authors themselves. Each Proposal gets a number of in-house reader reports, visible to the author. Authors that make it through that are asked to fill in a full Proposal. We particularly enjoy the books that cross boundaries and push out the envelope, that are in their way unusual or definitive (or both). We're looking for good popular writing the new, non-generic, ambitious and risky. We focus on the "mid-list" rather than celebrity mass-market publishing on the one hand or highly academic on the other.
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