Why choose Salt?
Whether you are a mid-career writer or preparing your debut, Salt is the perfect partner for your new novel.
With over a decade’s experience in literary publishing of the highest order, we are large enough to have an international impact, selling books and rights around the English-speaking world and beyond. Yet we are also small enough that you will feel part of your own passionate, dedicated and creative team – a team focussed on working with you at every stage to deliver quality books to our international readerships.
Every book we commit to publish is lovingly edited, beautifully designed and gorgeously manufactured – but every book is also creatively marketed, effectively publicised and, of course, persuasively sold through bookshops.
What we are looking for
Salt is actively seeking novel submissions directly from authors. Please carefully read the guidelines below. We only wish to receive fiction submissions that meet these criteria. In responding, please send all correspondence to submissions@saltpublishing.com. All works must be in English. All works must be aimed at a British market. You do not require an agent to submit to Salt. We prefer works of less than 80,000 words.
We are not currently accepting submissions of short stories, poetry, fantasy or memoirs. We do not publish fan fiction and cannot take on vampire or zombie novels.
Please note, we do not reissue books previously self-published on Kindle or any other platform in any other media, electronic or in print. We do not publish sequels or prequels to previously self-published books.
Please email us initially with:
- an 80 word biographical note
- an exciting 250 word description of your book
- six bullet points (of no more than 15 words each) that provide highly-specific and compelling reasons why you think British booksellers would wish to sell your novel
Here are details of novels we are interested in:
- “NORFOLK GOTHIC”. We are looking for dark fiction set explicitly in the English county of Norfolk. That is, works which centrally feature Norfolk settings and landscapes and which deal with the sinister side of human nature, containing elements of threat, menace, fear and death.
- LITERARY FICTION. We are looking for accessible, original, serious and compelling literary novels – though not experimental fiction.
- CRIME FICTION We are looking for sophisticated and original literary crime fiction; dark, fast-paced thrillers (especially those which feature both UK and continental European settings); traditional mainstream detective fiction and procedurals.
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Last updated 14th May 2013. |
