Finding a publisher is mostly a matching problem. Somewhere there is an editor who already publishes the kind of book you have written, and the work is finding that person before you spend a year querying houses that were never going to say yes.<\/p>\n
This directory gathers everything we have researched on publishers currently open to submissions, arranged by what you have written rather than by how large the company is. Each guide below covers who is open, what they ask you to send, and how long they usually take to answer.<\/p>\n
Start with the section that matches your book. Read two or three guides rather than one, because the same publisher often appears under different headings for different reasons. Build a shortlist of roughly ten houses, then check every one of them on its own website before you send anything. Submission windows open and close through the year, and no directory anywhere stays current between one visit and the next.<\/p>\n
If you are earlier in the process than that, our guides on how to publish a book<\/a> and how to spot a publishing scam<\/a> are worth reading first.<\/p>\n Fiction editors buy for a list, not for a slot, so the house that loves your crime novel may have no idea what to do with your quiet literary one. Work out which shelf your book belongs on first, then read the guide for that shelf.<\/p>\n Non-fiction is sold on authority as much as on writing. Publishers in this group want to know why you are the person to write this book, which is why most of them ask for a proposal rather than a finished manuscript.<\/p>\n Age band decides almost everything here, from word count to whether you need an illustrator. A board book, a picture book and a middle grade novel go to different editors even inside the same company.<\/p>\n Comics publishers read pages, not synopses. Nearly every house in this group asks for finished sample art alongside the script, and several only open their inbox for a few weeks each year.<\/p>\n Poetry and short fiction usually move through journals first and books second. Publication in a respected magazine is what gets a collection read, so these guides cover both routes.<\/p>\n Periodicals pay faster than book publishers and reply faster too, which makes them a sensible place to build a track record while a longer book is in progress.<\/p>\n Before you choose a publisher, choose a route. Traditional, independent and hybrid publishing ask different things of an author and return different things in exchange, and the guides here compare them honestly.<\/p>\n Rights are sold by territory, so a house in Toronto or Auckland may be open to a book that every publisher in New York has passed on. These guides cover who accepts submissions from abroad and what they expect.<\/p>\n First, look at what the publisher has released in the last two years and ask whether your book would sit comfortably beside those books. Second, read the submission page word for word and follow it exactly, including file format and subject line, because the first filter is usually whether you can follow instructions. Third, be certain about money. A publisher pays you. If a company asks you to pay for publication, that is a different arrangement with different risks, and our guide to publishing scams and the questions that expose them<\/a> explains how to tell one from the other.<\/p>\n We are an independent publisher in Lake City, Colorado, and we have been reading submissions since 1996. If your book is finished, or close to it, you can send it to us directly<\/a> and a person will read it. If you want to understand the whole process before you commit to a route, our book publishing services<\/a> page sets out what we do and what it costs, and the publishing directory<\/a> lists houses across the United States by state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finding a publisher is mostly a matching problem. Somewhere there is an editor who already publishes the kind of book you have written, and the work is finding that person before you spend a year querying houses that were never going to say yes. 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Life writing and non-fiction<\/h2>\n
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Children\u2019s books and young readers<\/h2>\n
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Comics, graphic novels and manga<\/h2>\n
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Poetry and short forms<\/h2>\n
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Magazines, journals and digital outlets<\/h2>\n
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Formats and routes to publication<\/h2>\n
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Publishers by country and language<\/h2>\n
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Three checks before you send anything<\/h2>\n
If you would rather not do this alone<\/h2>\n