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Submission Guidelines

IMPORTANT NOTICE 1st August 2024

We are now CLOSED for submissions until February 2025.

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We are always on the lookout for exciting new work (FICTION only!) and we welcome submissions across all relevant genres* by email.

Please email all submissions to: enquiries@aforauthors.co.uk

 

We are proud to be represented by Randle Editorial & Literary Consultancy for translation rights and N.American rights www.randleeditorial.co.uk

We adhere to the industry-wide commitment to professional behaviour in bookselling and publishing written and endorsed by the Booksellers Association, The Society of Authors, The Publishers Association and the Association of Authors’ Agents.

We only accept e-mail submissions. Please include a covering letter, brief synopsis, short author biography and the first three chapters of your manuscript as a Word document or PDF attachment. Downloadable material, e-books, or links to any such items are unacceptable. Please note that all postal submissions will be recycled unread.

We only accept Fiction submissions in the following genres:

Commercial and literary

Crime/Thriller

Historical

We look forward to hearing from you!

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVERY SINGLE ONE. IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM US WITHIN 5 MONTHS, IT IS UNLIKELY WE ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR WORK, APOLOGIES!