Written by June 25th, 2026

MANDRAKE of Oxford: Seeking Manuscript Queries

This UK-based publisher describes themselves as an “Independent publisher of essential occultural books”. They are open to submissions of work on Mysticism, Esotericism, Magick, Paganism, Erotica and Fetish, Shamanism, Culture, True Crime and Ripperology, as well as work related to Yoga Ayurveda, and Tantra, and other related topics, like ancient mysteries and UFOlogy. In terms of fiction they accept submissions about Occult, Myths, as well as Sci-Fi, and Erotica. To see their complete list go here. To see what they have recently published go here. They are not interested in submissions of work that are not related to their niche.

You can see by going to the main page of their website here, that their focus is on selling books. They also appear to have an active mailing list. Their website is old-fashioned and most of their covers are too, but they do feel topic-appropriate. I could not find a distributor listed. It’s hard to get a feel for how well past titles have sold.

When submitting they ask for only the query letter and the synopsis initially, and although they also have an author questionnaire they do not ask directly that interested authors submit it. I would try to answer as many of the questions they asked within the query letter and synopsis, in an integrated way. Although I’m very open to being corrected.

All submissions must be made via email. To see their submission guidelines, go here.


Emily Harstone is the author of many popular books, including The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript SubmissionsSubmit, Publish, Repeat, and The 2026 Guide to Manuscript Publishers. She regularly teaches three acclaimed courses on writing and publishing at The Writer’s Workshop at Authors Publish. You can follow her on Facebook here.

 

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