Page Street Publishing is a publisher of full color, mostly hardcover, gift books, cookbooks, and craft-books. Most of them have an important visual component. To get a good feeling for what they have published in the past you can go here. They are distributed through Macmillan in every country but Canada (where they have a different distributor). They publish around sixty titles a year.
Page Street Publishing has also started to focus on publishing children’s and young adult books
They have a strong marketing plan, both online and off, and they have received a lot of attention for the work, by a number of news organizations, including NPR.
All submissions should be made through emails. They only respond to submissions they are interested in seeing more of. It takes them no more than three months to respond. More detailed information on submitting to them is below.
Young Adult Fiction
Please include a query (1 page) with the first three chapters of your manuscript in the body of your email. Your query must contain: 1) a book synopsis that includes your novel’s pitch, word count, and classification (literary, historical, fantasy, mystery, etc); and 2) an author bio that describes your occupation, publishing history, social media presence, and any other relevant information that pertains to your manuscript (including any endorsements, if applicable). If you are represented by an agent or plan to be, please note this in your author bio. All submissions must be edited and proofread. Ideally, your manuscript’s length is 60-90K words and your protagonist is 15-18 years old.
In this section of their website there is a link that says “Call for YA Proposals for Marginalized Creators.” This link was broken at the time of my last update.
Nonfiction
Potential authors interested in submitting their work for consideration should include an author bio, a short synopsis (no more than a page) of their book concept and approach, samples of their work (recipes/projects/writing sample) if applicable, and any notable media hits or press features. If you are represented by an agent or plan to be, please note that they need to be part of the conversation from the start.
Horror Fiction (Adult)
This is a new genre for them. They ask that you submit three chapters and a query including a book synopsis and an author bio.
To learn more about submitting to them, please visit their full submission guidelines page here.
