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.
Children’s Books
Please include a query (1 page) with the text as a word document or a pdf sketch dummy, 32-40 pages, as an attachment in spread layouts. Your query must contain: 1) synopsis, pitch, age range; and 2) an author bio that describes your occupation, publishing history, social media presence, and any other relevant information that pertains to your manuscript. If you are an illustrator, please also send your website. If you are represented by an agent or plan to be, please note this in your author bio.
Email: childrensubmissions@pagestreetpublishing.com with the title of your manuscript in the subject line.
Young Adult Fiction
Please label your submission YA and state the title of your manuscript in the subject line of your email. Include a query (1-2 pages) 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.
Email: submissions@pagestreetpublishing.com and make sure to label YA in the subject line. If you are an agent, write AGENTED in the subject line as well.
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.
Email: submissions@pagestreetpublishing.com and make sure to label NONFICTION in the subject line. If you are an agent, write AGENTED in the subject line as well.
To learn more about submitting to them, visit their full submission guidelines page here.