This list focuses on ten publishers that we are excited about that are open to submissions this month.

Some are only open for a short period of time, others will be open the whole month and beyond. At least four of these are presses we have not covered previously. We are still reviewing a minimum of four presses a month, we are just releasing those reviews differently, to help mitigate the amount of submissions presses receive when we review them.

Please note that if a publisher doesn’t have a specific submission window they can close at any time, and publishers that use Submittable can close at any point because of submission caps (although these publishers generally reopen to submissions at the end of the month).

If a publisher has closed to submissions unexpectedly, please send us an email at support@authorspublish.com.

Please read the full review, which we link to in the title, and carefully consider fit before submitting work. I can not stress enough that you should only submit to presses that are a good fit for your work, and that you should carefully read and follow submissions guidelines before submitting that work. Over the past year we had several presses ask to be de-listed because they were deluged by submissions, even after moving to this format. Still more presses have had to temporarily close to submissions because of an influx of inappropriate submissions.

Second Sky
Second Sky is a brand new Science Fiction and Fantasy imprint of Bookouture, which is an established digital publisher of commercial fiction, and an imprint of Hachette UK. We don’t review publishers till they have been been actively publishing for a year, but we make exceptions for imprints, as there is already an established parent company attached.

Roxane Gay Books
Roxane Gay Books is a new imprint of Grove Atlantic. Roxane Gay has written about this new imprint here. Roxane Gay is the award-winning and bestselling author of a number of books, including Hunger and Bad Feminist. She’s a respected essayist, professor of writing, and one of the original co-founders of PANK. Their current reading period will close to submissions on October 16th, 2024.

Entwined Publishing
The Totally Entwined Group is an eBook, audiobook, and print publisher that was successful in its own right, before being purchased by the Bonnier Publishing group. There have been some shifts in focus since Bonnier purchased it in 2015 but the group still has a mostly good reputation. For a long time its focus was on it’s two flagship established imprints – Pride and Totally Bound. They later added a third imprint focused on YA and New Adult books called Finch. As of October 1st 2024, they seem to have moved away from all three imprints, and their original name.  They have now rebranded as Entwined Publishing. Now they have eight imprints, all with brand new names. The current eight imprints are Epic (Young/New Adult), Entice (Contemporary), Eclipse (Dark Romance), Enchant (Romantasy – which is to say romance + fantasy), Eternal (Paranormal), Echoes (Historical) and Expanse (Science Fiction). All imprints have additional guidelines and preferences. Please carefully review the appropriate imprints page before submitting.

Flux 
Flux is an imprint of North Star Editions that publishes exclusively young adult fiction. Their motto is “Where Young Adult is a Point of View, not a Reading Level”. Most of the books they publish focus on the older end of the young adult market. They publish edgier, darker stuff, than other young adult publishers. They publish all sub-genres of young adult from realistic life stories to sci fi. They are established, have good distribution, and have published many books that have sold well. They have three open reading periods a year, including October to November.

Jolly Fish Press 
Jolly Fish Press was started in 2012. They are based out of Provo, Utah. Their authors have won numerous awards. They initially published a wide range of genres for adults, children, and young adults. They are now part of North Star Editions and like their sister imprint Flux, are only open to submissions three times a year, including October to November.

Orison Books
They publish spiritually-engaged poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of exceptional literary merit. They are a respected small press that has had work featured in many major publications. During the month of October they are open to general fiction and nonfiction submissions, as well as anthology proposals. They also run a number of contests in different genres, but a fee is attached to these contests, so we do not list them. There is no fee attached to the October submission period, but they do accept optional donations, but they do not impact their decisions/the outcome.

Holiday House
Holiday House is an established and reputable children’s book publishers. Holiday House was founded in 1935. They publish picture books as well as books aimed at children grades 1-3, grades 4-6, and grades 7 and up. They are based out of New York City. They have published many well-known books and authors, including Kenneth Grahame. The books that they have published have won numerous respected awards and honors.

Nourish
Nourish is an imprint of Watkins Publishing, which was established in 1893. It is a UK based press with good distribution through Penguin Random House. Nourish focuses on publishing work related to “food and drink”, whereas Watkins as a whole focuses on “mind, body & spirit”. Watkins Publishing is not currently open to submissions according to its separate submission guidelines page here, but Nourish is, according to their submission guidelines.

Storm Publishing
Storm Publishing was founded in 2022 by Oliver Rhodes, the founder of Bookouture. They published their first book in the spring of 2023 and Rhodes brought a number of Bookouture staff members over to Storm with him. Storm Publishing focuses on publishing adult fiction including thrillers and crime fiction, historical fiction, romance, women’s fiction and science fiction and fantasy. You can read more about the launch of Storm Publishing here. There is a lot of overlap in the two companies, in that both focus on digital- first publishing and have similar approaches to sales.

Blue Snake Books
Blue Snake Books is an imprint of North Atlantic Book Company. You can see our review of North Atlantic Book Company here. Blue Snake Books, was founded in 2005. Since the start they have focused on martial arts. They break their catalog down in terms of type of martial art, covering Aikido, Baguazhang, Capoeira, Chinese martial arts, Japanese martial arts, Jiu-jitsu & Judo, Karate & Tae Kwon Do, Krav Maga, Muay Thai & Kickboxing, Qigong (Ch’i Gung), Taijiquan (T’ai Chi), and Xingiquan.