Independent guidance for authors · Your work remains yours.
✦ Independent publishing guidance
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Independent publishing guidance for the manuscript on your desk. Prepare your materials, explore the route ahead, and keep every right to your work.
- No rights taken
- You keep copyright and control at every stage.
- A place to begin
- Review your synopsis before you prepare a submission.
- Plain answers
- We tell you when a route is unlikely to work.
A manuscript does not fail because it is unfinished; it fails because it reaches the wrong desk on the wrong day in the wrong shape.
What we do
Four ways we work with authors.
Find an agent
A researched shortlist of agents whose current lists actually fit your manuscript, with notes on what each one asks for.
Read morePrepare your materials
Query letter, synopsis, opening pages and author note, reviewed against what submission readers are looking for.
Read moreFind a publisher
Imprints, independents and university presses that read unagented work, and how their submission windows run.
Read moreFilm & TV rights
How screen rights are optioned, what a producer is buying, and which parts of a deal authors most often misread.
Read moreHow it runs
Four movements, start to submission.
Prologue
You send the book, the genre and where the project stands. Nothing formal, no sample fee.
Chapter I
We read the material and map it against the current market — comparable titles, likely readership, obvious gaps.
Chapter II
You receive a shortlist and a submission plan: who to approach, in what order, and what each one wants to see.
Epilogue
You submit. We stay available for follow-up questions as replies come back.
The reference shelf
Stories that endure.
Emily Brontë
Leo Tolstoy
Victor Hugo
Reference shelf
The classics that shaped the craft.
Classic titles shown for reference. Cover images are supplied by the Open Library cover archive.
Why authors come to us
Clear ground under your submission.
- Research grounded in what agents and imprints are publishing now, not a static directory.
- Plain notes on your pages, not a scored report.
- No commission, no rights claim, no exclusivity.
- Guidance that works the same whether you end up traditional, hybrid or independent.
- One point of contact who has read your book.
- Clear answers about what a submission can and cannot promise.
Questions
Before you get in touch.
Are you a literary agency?
No. We are a guidance service. We research the market, explain how submissions are read, and help you prepare materials. We do not represent authors, take commission, or sign rights agreements.
Can you guarantee an agent will sign me?
No one honestly can. Agents and editors make subjective decisions about what they can sell. What we can do is make sure your work reaches the people most likely to want it, in the form they expect.
Do I keep the rights to my manuscript?
Always. Nothing you send us transfers copyright, licence, or any claim on your work. We use what you send only to advise you.
What does the $25 membership include?
It is a display-only plan on this site: a standing place in our reading queue and access to our submission guidance library. Checkout is not connected, so nothing is charged today.
Send your book
Tell us what you're working on.
A short note is enough to begin. We read everything that arrives here.
The book is already written. The next part is knowing where to send it.
Join Membership — $25