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Submission guidelines

Submissions are made via an online submission form available via the website. What to send: a pitch or blurb for the book in a few paragraphs, a brief author biography, and the full manuscript. Genres: Crime & Thriller, Women's Fiction, Historical Romance, Cozy Crime, Young Adult, or Other. Science Fiction or Fantasy manuscripts should instead go to the Second Sky imprint. File formats: pdf, doc, docx or rtf, maximum 10MB, with Word documents preferred. Only one manuscript per submission (further manuscripts require a new submission). Supporting documents: optional additional documents such as a synopsis may be uploaded, in pdf, doc, docx, rtf, jpg, xlsx or csv format, max 10MB. Other requirements: submissions must confirm the work is the writer's own creative content and has not been generated by AI.