AM Ink is a Western Massachusetts based press that publishes quality biographies, children’s books, novels, and short story collections. They’ve published more than 60 titles, including bestsellers. They have also sold television rights, and had movies made from their books.
They have two imprints. Dark Ink, their horror imprint, has released everything from celebrity biographies like Kane Hodder, to novels and short story collections. Most of what they publish falls under the Dark Ink Imprint.
Spooky Ink, their children’s imprint, publishes scary picture books for children and young adult novels. Children’s books must be fully illustrated.
They also publish work directly under the AM Ink name, presumably, because there are books in their store that don’t fall clearly into either category. You can see these books here.
Their book covers vary wildly, in terms of quality.
They do not publish Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, YA, Sci-Fi, Military, Poetry, Gothic Fiction, Children’s Chapter Books, Religion, Literary Fiction or Political based books.
Novels, non-fiction, and short story collections must be over 60,000 words to be considered and they only consider children’s books that have been fully illustrated and are over 24 pages in length.
They now have different reading periods for different genres:
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
They do not disclose distribution on their website.
All work they accept by non-celebrities will be scheduled for publication in 2024 or later.
They are always open to children’s books and film related titles. They now have limited submission windows for horror novels, short story collections and all other titles. To learn more, go here.
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