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WHY PUBLISH WITH US?

Bloodhound Books is one of the UK’s leading independent publishers of commercial fiction, focusing on crime, thriller, psychological, literary, historical, women’s and mystery fiction. We work extremely closely with authors to create international bestselling books.

We accept unsolicited submissions, manuscripts from agents, previously published authors, including self-published authors, and debut writers. We bring passion, experience, and dedication to every single book we publish.

Bloodhound Books is a member of the Independent Publishers Guild and The Crime Writers’ Association.


Before submitting, please read the guidelines below.


 WHAT WE PUBLISH:

  • Our favourite genres are crime fiction, mysteries, psychological thrillers, literary, suspense, and domestic noir. We also welcome women’s fiction, historical fiction, romance, chick-lit, steamy romance and sagas.

  • We encourage authors of colour, LGTBQ+ authors, differently-abled authors, and authors from diverse backgrounds to submit their work.

  • We are looking for great stories, fresh ideas, natural writing ability, and original voices.

  • We publish writers we believe in, whether they are a debut novelist, an agented author, a self-represented writer or an author who is already established.

We will not consider non-fiction, YA fiction, children's fiction or sci-fi.

 

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:

We do not consider any work that is fewer than 60,000 words.

We only accept submissions electronically via email. All submissions should include:     

·       The complete manuscript.

·       A synopsis of your work (no more than 1500 words). If the synopsis is incomplete we will not consider your work. [How to write a Synopsis]

·       A cover letter telling us about you and your writing career to date.

You can send all of the above as email attachments as Word Documents to submissions@bloodhoundbooks.com

We aim to respond to all submissions within six weeks of receipt. If you have not received a response within this time, please do give us a nudge, as well as check your junk/ spam folders.

 

* Please note we can only consider complete manuscripts. Unfinished manuscripts will not be considered for publication.

** Please do bear in mind that although all of our books are available as print on demand, we are a predominately digital publisher. Our focus is on selling eBooks to massive global audiences. We do not undertake large print runs of books and in most cases we do not aim for wide print distribution in bricks and mortar stores.