See what it took to publish my first novel

Welcome to my personal list of literary agents and publishers / editors who acquire commercial fiction (literary and genre for adults). The list helped me find a literary agent who robbed me, and editors who published me. More about this list...

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Daunt Books Publishing
www.dauntbookspublishing.co.uk
publishing@dauntbooks.co.uk
207-209 Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2JU
Marigold Atkey, Publisher
Dredhëza Maloku, Editor
dredheza@dauntbooks.co.uk

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DAW Books (Penguin Random House)
375 Hudson St., 3rd Floor,
New York NY 10014-3658.
212-3662090
daw@penguinrandomhouse.com
www.dawbooks.com
Peter Stampfel, submissions editor
pstampfel@penguinrandomhouse.com
peter.stampfel@us.penguingroup.com

Sci-fi and Fantasy

Accepts unagented submissions (including previously self-published): https://submit.dawbooks.com/

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Dialogue Books | Blackfriars (Hachette)
Maisie Lawrence
maisie.lawrence@hachette.co.uk

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Dial Press (Penguin Random House)
www.thedialpress.com
Whitney Frick
Clio Seraphim
cseraphim@penguinrandomhouse.com
Chayennne Skeete
cskeete@penguinrandomhouse.com
Katy Nishimoto
Emma Caruso
ecaruso@penguinrandomhouse.com
Rose Fox

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Dissident Books
P.O. Box 20547
New York, NY 10021-0070
646-422-31000
www.dissidentbooks.com
publisher@dissidentbooks.com

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Doire Press
Ireland
www.doirepress.com
John Walsh, Commissioning

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Drake Valley Press
www.drakevalleypress.com
Submit to:
Don Freeman dfreeman@drakevalleypress.com

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Duckworth Books
1 Golden Court Richmond TW9 1EU
www.duckworthbooks.co.uk
Open Submissions:
submissions@duckworthbooks.com
Rowan Cope, Publisher
Pete Duncan, Managing Director

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Dundurn Press
500-3 Church Street Toronto, ON
416 214-5544
www.dundurn.com
submissions@dundurn.com
Elena Radic, Managing Editor
Melissa Kawaguchi, Editorial Assistant
Russell Smith, Acquisitions Editor
Julie Mannell, Acquisitions Editor
Alison Isaac, Submissions Assistant
Kathryn Lane
klane@dundurn.com

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Dutton (Penguin Random House)
www.penguin.com/publishers/dutton/
Lindsey Rose
lrose@penguinrandomhouse.com
Cassidy Sachs
Stephanie Kelly
skelly@penguinrandomhouse.com
Lexy Cassola
lcassola@penguinrandomhouse.com
Maya Ziv
Pilar Garcia-Brown
Ben Lee

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Dzanc Books
www.dzancbooks.org
https://dzancbooks.submittable.com/submit

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Echo Publishing (Imprint of Bonnier Books UK)
The Editorial Coordinator
Echo Publishing 12 Northumberland St South
Melbourne, Victoria 3205
www.echopublishing.com.au
Runs Open Submissions (online form, or above snail mail address)
Juliet Rogers

We are mainly looking for fiction and narrative nonfiction for an adult (or crossover) audience.

Include with your manuscript: a brief covering letter (no more than a page), including the date and full contact details (author’s name, postal address, phone and email) a synopsis of the project, including the total word count a brief biographical note on the author (about 150 words) for fiction, send the full manuscript for nonfiction, send the full manuscript or the first 10,000 words of the manuscript

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ECCO (HarperCollins)
www.harpercollins.com/pages/ecco#abouttheimprint
Helen Atsma
Sara Birmingham
sara.birmingham@harpercollins.com
Denise Oswald MOVED to Pantheon
Gabriella Doob
Emma Dries
Norma Barksdale
Miriam Parker

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ECW Press
2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M4E 1E2
www.ecwpress.com
Michael Holmes
michael@ecwpress.com
Jennifer Knoch
jennifer@ecwpress.com
Jen Sookfong Lee
jenl@ecwpress.com
Jen Albert
jenalbert@ecwpress.com
Susan Renouf
Pia Singhal

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Elder Signs Press
P.O. Box 389
Lake Orion, MI 48361-0389
www.eldersignspress.com
Queries: editor@eldersignspress.com
info@eldersignspress.com

Genres: Dark Fantasy, Dark Fiction Thrillers, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Supernatural Thrillers

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Elliott & Thompson Ltd
2 John Street, London WC1N 2ES
www.eandtbooks.com
Robin Harvie
robin@eandtbooks.com
Pippa Crane
Sarah Rigby
Jennie Condell

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Erewhon Books
www.erewhonbooks.com
submissions@erewhonbooks.com

Speculative fiction

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Europa Editions
www.europaeditions.co.uk
www.europaeditions.com (US)
Christopher Potter (UK)
Eva Ferri (UK)
evaferri@edizionieo.it
Sandra Ozzola Ferri
Sandro Ferri
Michael Reynolds (US)
Kent Carroll (US)
Raonaid Ryn

Europa Editions is an independent publisher of international fiction.

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Eye Books / Lightning Books
London, UK
www.Eye-Books.com
Open Submissions
Submit to: dan@eye-books.com
Fiction and Non-Fiction
Simon Edge, Editor
Dan Hiscocks, Publisher

Our list is eclectic, so we are open to most genres and styles, but we don’t publish children’s picture books, poetry or academic texts.

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5310 Publishing
Windsor, Ontario
www.5310publishing.com
Agented and Unagented submissions welcome
Download submission form, or
Agents submit here: publishwithus@5310publishing.com
Authors submit here: publisher@5310publishing.com

Caution: Also runs editorial services for writers

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Faber and Faber (UK)
Bloomsbury House
74-77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B3DA
Direct Dial:0044 (0) 2079273825
Emmie Francis
emmie.francis@faber.co.uk
Angus Cargill
angus.cargill@faber.co.uk
Alexa von Hirschberg
Alex Bowler
Ella Griffith
Louisa Joyner - Associate Publisher
Libby Marshall Commissioning Editor Crime Fiction
libby.marshall@faber.co.uk
Jordaine Kehinde, Editorial Assisstant

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Fairlight Books
Summertown Pavilion, 18 -24 Middle Way, Oxford, OX2 7LG
FairlightBooks.co.uk
Laura Shanahan, Submissions
Louise Boland, Founder

Open Submissions for Writers, including self-published novels: Submissions@FairlightBooks.com

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Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
https://us.macmillan.com/fsg
Janine Barlow
janine.barlow@hbpub.com
Grace Kendall
grace.kendall@hbpub.com
Janine O'Malley (YA, MG)
Mitzi Angel
Jenna Johnson, Editor in Chief
Eric Chinski, Senior Executive Editor
eric.chinski@hbpub.com

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Fitzcarraldo Editions
www.fitzcarraldoeditions.com
info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Tamara Sampey-Jawad, Associate Publisher
Jacques Testard, Publisher

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Flatiron Books (Macmillan)
www.flatironbooks.com
https://us.macmillan.com/flatiron-books/
Caroline Bleeke
caroline.bleeke@flatironbooks.com
Christine Kopprasch
christine.kopprasch@flatironbooks.com
Maxine Charles
maxine.charles@flatironbooks.com
Nadxieli Nieto - Wants thrillers as of Sept 2021
Sydney Jeon
Samantha Zukergood
Zachary Wagman
Kukuwa Ashun

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Fleet [Little Brown, Hachette]
www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/lbbg/fleet/page/little-brown-books/lbbg-imprint-fleet/
Ursula Doyle, Publisher

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Footnote Press (Bonnier)
4th Floor Victoria House, London WC1B 4DA
www.footnotepress.com
Vidisha Biswas - Co-founder
Sujoy Roy - Co-founder
Candida Lacey
candida@footnotepress.com

“an independently run, disruptive publisher of literary fiction and narrative non-fiction, focusing on migration, identity and marginalised knowledge and experience"

Open Submissions: editorial@footnotepress.com

A covering email containing your contact details and a brief description of the work, and outlining why you think it would be suitable for Footnote | The entire manuscript, if possible. If you can’t supply this please send a sample of at least the first 20,000 words. Manuscript and sample documents should be double-spaced | A short biography (no more than one page), outlining your reasons for writing this book and your ambitions for it, along with any previous writing and publishing experience you have | A detailed, concise synopsis of the book, no more than three pages in length

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Fourth Estate (HarperCollins) UK
www.harpercollins.co.uk/collections/fourth-estate
Nicholas Pearson
Nicola Webb
Mia Colleran
Jordan Mulligan
jordan.mulligan@harpercollins.co.uk
Michelle Kane
Kish Widyaratna

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