Now Available: The 2018 Guide to Manuscript Publishers

About The Book: The 2018 Guide to Manuscript Publishers features traditional publishers that accept submissions directly from writers. No agent or previous publishing experience is required. The guide features publishers is a wide variety of genres, including literary fiction, picture books, non-fiction, young adult, Christian, romance, science-fiction, mystery, and more.

Some of the manuscript publishers reviewed have excellent distribution and you can see examples of the books they have published in brick and mortar bookstores and your local library. Others are imprints of the “Big Five” publishers. Some of the manuscript publishers are only a few years old and still figuring things out. Others are ebook only publishers.

All of the manuscript publishers are traditional publishers that have been around for at least two years, all have been researched on various watchdog sites, and any negative information we have dug up is included in the review.

Featured in the book this year, in addition to the publisher reviews, is a guide to the manuscript submission process, as well as a glossary of common publishing terms.

–– Emily Harstone

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Inkubator Books

Inkubator Books

This Dublin, Ireland-based press focuses on publishing crime fiction, mystery, and thrillers. They do not publish work outside of this genre, and they do not publish work outside of Amazon. Most of the work they publish do very well on Amazon through Kindle Unlimited. The books they publish are not just available digitally, they also…

Watertower Hill Publishing

Watertower Hill Publishing

A small press founded in 2020 by Joshua L. Daughrity, who publishes his work under the pen name Joshua Loyd Fox. It started out as a self-publishing operation, but expanded from there into anthologies. Watertower Hill held their first open reading period for manuscripts in 2023. They are transparent about how many authors they signed…

Subtle Body Press

Subtle Body Press

Subtle Body Press is a small press that publishes a schizo-philosophical / countercultural journal series called Seven Story Hotel and a short fiction focused literary journal called Body Shots, both of which are currently open to submissions. They are also seeking a novella-length work of fiction or creative nonfiction to publish this year.  This is…

Windhorse Publications

Windhorse Publications

Windhorse Publications is an independent publisher of English-language nonfiction books on Buddhism, meditation and mindfulness. The work they publish is for Buddhist practitioners of all stages as well as for non-Buddhist readership. They also say, “We are also interested in books exploring new directions in Buddhist scholarship.” Like most faith-based publications, they are only interested…