Black Lyon Publishing is a small but established publisher of out of Oregon. They started out publishing Romance, and then expanded into nonfiction. Currently they are only accepting submissions of Thrillers as well as a variety of non-fiction.
I am not a huge fan of the covers or of the design of the website, but that is a matter of personal taste.
They seem to lean Republican based on this 2022 publication.
They are a rather small publisher, so they do expect their authors to do a lot of self-promotion. They are now producing more and more audio books, which seems like a good idea.
When you query them do not attach any material. It will not be opened. Do not submit any manuscript over 90,000 words in length. They have a response time of three months. A history of previous publications does not seem to be particularly important.
The body of your query email should contain your name, manuscript title, the type of novel/nonfiction book, word count, a 1-2 paragraph blurb similar to what you might imagine the back cover of your book to read, and the first three paragraphs of your manuscript.
They are not interested in a synopsis so do not include one. Nonfiction queries should also include a table of contents.
They do offer publishing services but only for projects that fall outside the lines of what they publish, which makes the dividing line very clear.
To learn more read their submission guidelines here. You can visit their main page here to have a better idea of what kind of books they publish. In terms of fiction, they are currently open to submissions of political or legal thrillers, only. In terms of nonfiction they are currently open to True Crime, Politics, Spirituality, and travel. They have additional details about what they are looking for along these lines on their submission guideline page.
