Coffeetown Press is a literary and non-fiction imprint owned by Epicenter Press. They primarily publish non-fiction, as well as memoir, literary fiction, and historical fiction.
Coffeetown Press has distribution through Ingram, which isn’t ideal, but they also have relationships with a number of wholesalers, which is great. They’ve been around for over twenty years and most of the books they publish seem to receive positive reviews and sell a fair number of books on Amazon.
Their books do tend to sell well online and receive positive reviews. It’s good to get a feel for what they publish by visiting their website here. I do not generally like the appearance of their book covers, but this may be a matter of personal preference. They are not very active on social media – in fact they last time they posted on FB at the time of this update was 2019.
For memoir and nonfiction they ask for an introduction, outline, and the first consecutive 50 pages. For literary and historical fiction they ask for the first 50 consecutive pages, a biography, and promotional information.
They will not consider work that has been previously published unless it was published by a traditional press, and has gone out of print. If that is the case they have additional guidelines to follow. Please check the website.
They prefer manuscripts to be between 70,000 and 100,000 words in length, but books between 50,000 and 70,000 words will still be considered.
Their PDF outlining submission guidelines is here.
They accept submissions via email and have submission guidelines that you should be sure to follow. You can read the full guidelines here.
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