Here are four publishers that are open to accepting works directly from writers - no agent required. Each has a specialized focus, but depending on what you write, one of these may be a good fit.
Smaller publishers, while they may lack clout, can sometimes offer more to new authors than the larger publishing houses. Small to mid-size houses tend to be more supportive, offering a personalized hands-on editorial approach, and allowing greater input from their authors.
If you publish with a smaller house, you should be prepared to do the majority of your own marketing. This is increasingly the trend in publishing, even for the larger houses.
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Red Adept
Red Adept Publishing is an independent publisher of genre fiction. Since their first release in 2012, they have published over 100 novels, including 4 national bestsellers (NYT and USA Today). Their contracts include distribution rights for print, eBook, and audio. "We love providing a home for new and established authors."
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Avon is a division of HarperCollins. They are open to submissions to Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint. They consider picture book, chapter book, middle grade novel, and young adult novel manuscripts as well as middle grade and young adult nonfiction manuscripts, and both poetry and graphic novel format. "Our emphasis will be on contemporary, near histories and/or futuristic works, including realistic fiction and genre fiction."
Read guidelines HERE.
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Schaffner Press publishes: Fiction: literary adult fiction, short fiction collections, historical fiction with socially relevant content, crime fiction. Non-fiction: memoir, autobiography, biography, journalistic expose or narrative, true crime, art, culture, pop culture, world history, current events, science, arts and letters, US history, military history music. No children’s or young adult fiction or non-fiction. No science fiction, romance, or fantasy.
Submissions: Length: Manuscripts must be between 60,000 – 100,000 words. Read their submission guidelines HERE.
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Turner Publishing
Turner Publishing is an award-winning, independent publisher of books. The company is in the top 101 independent publishing companies in the U.S. as compiled by Bookmarket.com and has been named five times to Publishers Weekly's Fastest Growing Publishers List. Operating since 1984, Turner currently publishes 5,000 titles.
Turner has a broad array of titles in fiction & non-fiction, including business, young adult, history, romance, mystery, cookbooks, health & wellness, animals, design, and more. Turner Publishing Company has the following imprints:
- Turner
- Wiley: Turner publishes under the Wiley name, with permission, for over 1,000 acquired titles
- Hunter House: Health, Wellness & Sexuality Titles
- Ancestry: Genealogy (acquired assets of the book division of Ancestry.com)
- Fieldstone Alliance: Business Books for Non-profits (acquired assets of Fieldstone Alliance)
- Basic Health Publications: Titles on Health and Wellness
- Iroquois Press: Fiction and Literature imprint
- Ramsey & Todd: for children's books
- Specific Titles formerly published by Cumberland House Press
Read their submission guidelines here
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