Manuscript Submissions

We publish established writers and breakthrough, new voices.

If you have published with us before, you still have to submit an inquiry.

We are a dynamic, forward-looking independent publisher that welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. We are looking for books that will inspire, inform and illuminate the lives of readers – with subjects that push the boundaries, are unusual or definitive (maybe even both), delve into new areas of popular subjects, and could never be classed as generic. We want authors with talent, who are ambitious, committed to working with us to promote their books and know how to connect with their community. This alchemic mix of author and subject is what makes our list so unique and successful. Are you ready to be part of it?

• We provide reader reports, editing, worldwide distribution, marketing and publicity, sales through first-class sales teams to brick-and-mortar shops worldwide and to all online accounts, as standard for all titles.
• Our three contracts offer competitive royalty rates.
• If we like a title but feel the market is limited or difficult, and/or the title is expensive on the design front, a small subsidy from the author may be required.
• Our ethos is transparency. We work through our innovative database to guide and support you through the publishing process, offering you real-time data on marketing and sales.
• The business is mostly run by authors, for authors, all working remotely.
• Authors have access to real-time data on their publishing process via our online database.
• Authors have access to thousands of industry contacts via our shared Contacts Database.
• Process takes approximately 12–14 months from Proposal to Publication.
• Production is faster than usual, taking an average of 3–5 months from manuscript to finished file. Books can be made available for your own use at any time afterward, but we do need 10 months, from finished files to publication, to get your title set up with distributors and added to retailer catalogues, as well as for the reps to contact shops around the world with the finished product.
• We work with over 70 sales reps worldwide.
• Royalties are competitive on both print books and ebooks.
• Distribution and sales are international rather than national.
• Monthly sales are available for you to see, with your marketing.
• Access to thousands of industry contacts via our shared Contacts Database.
• Access to author communities, discussions, and help forums.
• The way we work allows us to spend more effort on sales, marketing, and social networking so that we can publish more good titles — and good titles support each other in the market.

First, find the right imprint for your book. See our list here.

Tell us a bit About You, your Previous Books if you have any, give us a Brief Description about what it’s about, who it’s aimed at and how much you think it’s going to sell.

• ✅ We only accept one manuscript at a time.

• ✅ Your book doesn’t need to be finished but the sample text needs at least 5000 words

• ✅ Upload your file as a doc or docx file.

• ✅ Please submit only one document, not several for different chapters.

• ✅ For supporting documents, PDF, JPEG, and Excel files are okay.

• ✅ Files up to 4MB supported

• ❌ Make sure there are no special characters in your filenames such as / " ! etc.

• ❌ Files over 4MB not supported.

• ❌ If your files and filenames are not in the correct format or the wrong size they will not upload or issue a warning.

Our business is made up of a small but talented team of editors, publicists, marketers, designers, and salespeople. To make sure that we deliver the best service to our authors and achieve the best results that we can, the nuts and bolts of seeing a book through to publication are dealt with efficiently by email notifications, our online database, shared access to a Contacts Database for promotion, and detailed sales reports updated monthly. It’s a transparent system that builds trust and collaborative spirit between our team and our authors.

Because this is not how many authors have experienced the publishing process, or how they expect the process to happen, we created this detailed Publishing Guide to support them. We advise and expect every author to use the Publishing Guide as the first port of call for advice and reference. For genuine queries that aren’t covered or for those that authors sense aren’t covered clearly, they have access to nearly everyone in the company on our Author Forum.

If we like your inquiry, we will invite you to submit a full proposal.

If we think that your proposal is promising, we will ask one–three of our readers for their comments. They will leave a Reader Report, usually within two weeks, though times can vary by up to a week, depending on the volume of submissions and staff availability. Based on their consensus, our Managing Director makes a decision to offer one of our three contracts or not.

There is nothing legally binding on either side until contracts are accepted.

We usually respond to your inquiry within one week*, your proposal within three weeks*. So in total, it can take up to four weeks between an inquiry and a contract offer.

*Times may vary by up to a week depending on the volume of submissions and staff availability.

We will consider your book for publication only once.

For full detail on the process, please read How to Publish with Us.