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Wild Hunt Books is Temporarily Open to Unagented Novel Submissions

Deadline: January 26th, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Themes: Stories that experiment with narrative, plot and structure. in darker genres

Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions from 13-26 January 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novels only (50K-90K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under). We are only looking for standalone novels and are not acquiring series or duologies. We are not seeking short story collections or novellas this time. We are not a home for poetry, non-fiction, screenplays, translations, and children’s or YA fiction.

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Cursed Dragon Ship – January 2025 Window For Novel Submissions

Submission Window: January 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Unpublished speculative Fiction novels, ideally with series potential.

We are currently closed for submissions. However, we will open for one month next year to fill in the gaps in our 2026 schedule. So polish your manuscript and follow the directions below. We can’t wait to explore what you create during January of 2025. (If you send in a manuscript before January 1, 2025, it will be automatically rejected.)

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Cursed Dragon Ship January 2025 Novel Submissions

Submission Window: January 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Science Fiction, Fantasy, or horror

We are currently closed for submissions. However, we will open for one month next year to fill in the gaps in our 2026 schedule. So polish your manuscript and follow the directions below. We can’t wait to explore what you create during January of 2025. (If you send in a manuscript before January 1, 2025, it will be automatically rejected.)

Manuscript Submission Guidelines – January 1-31, 2025

When we reopen for submissions in January 2025, we’re looking for complete, previously unpublished manuscripts in the speculative fiction genre that have series potential. Speculative fiction encompasses horror, fantasy, and science fiction—and all the niche categories under those large umbrellas.

Requirements:

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Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount / Novel / Pay / Royalties

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Dark Age Press January 2025 Window For Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels

Submission Window: January 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: $500 to $2000, negotiated royalties, set number of contributor copies
Themes: Fantasy, Science Fiction, or Literary Fiction

The next Open Submissions begins on January 1, 2025.

Who We Are
Dark Age Press is a small, independent publisher. We presently focus on Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Literary Fiction. We are not looking for picture books, children’s books, or works focused on themes for Young Adult (YA), religious, or erotica. We are not a vanity press.

Our mission: to support local, independent bookstores and pop-up bookstores, and, as such, we only sell to those bookstores.

Our goal is to publish two works per year.
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Rabid Otter Horror Is Open To Novels And Novellas

Deadline: January 23rd, 2025 at the earliest, may run later
Payment: 50/50 royalty split
Theme: Horror of all kinds, huge fan of sci-fi and cosmic horror.

Rabid Otter Horror is currently open to submissions in novella and novel form. If you have a story you would like to submit that is 30,000+ words, we would like to hear from you!

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Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing January 2025 Open Novel WIndow

Submission Window: January 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: Unlisted at this time, they’re usually good about listing pay and as details are scant as this is a super early heads up, I’m sure more will come in time. It ‘should’ be competitive rates so this is just to keep in mind for when they open if you have a novel ready or almost ready to go. We’ll update this post when we hear more.
Theme: Speculative Fiction of 40-100k words.

We are currently closed for submissions. However, we will open for one month next year to fill in the gaps in our 2026 schedule. So polish your manuscript and follow the directions below. We can’t wait to explore what you create during January of 2025. (If you send in a manuscript before January 1, 2025, it will be automatically rejected.)

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Novel / Novella / Ongoing Submissions / Royalties

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Twelve House Books Is Open For Novels, Novellas, and Collections – 2024 Update

 

Payment: 50% Royalties Paid To The Author
Theme: Novels, Novellas, and collections that contain: Ghost Stories, Quirk, Narrative Poems, the Sublime, the Numinous, and stories about American Suburbia or set in Los Angeles

Twelve House Books is an independent publisher of Literary Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry with a distinct focus on the dark and unruly; magic and the sublime. Publishing from an idyllic yet peculiar suburban neighborhood such as those celebrated by so many storytellers, Twelve House Books champions literature of the odd, weird, uncanny, majestic, and holy.

 

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Unveiling Nightmares Is Open To Novelettes, Novellas, Novels, and Short Story Collections

Theme: Novelettes, Novellas, Novels, and Short Story Collections in the following genres: horror (all sub-genres including extreme/splatterpunk), romance, science fiction, erotica, poetry, and young adult fiction
Payment: 80% of royalties and a contributors copy

Welcome to Unveiling Nightmares.

At Unveiling Nightmares, we understand the craving for adventure, excitement, and thrills that our readers seek. Yearning to escape the mundane and delve into worlds teeming with mystery and intrigue.

Whether you have a novelette, novella, a gripping novel, or a collection of short stories, we’re eager to take a look.

We welcome works across a variety of genres, including horror (all sub-genres including extreme/splatterpunk), romance, science fiction, erotica, poetry, and young adult fiction. Whether your story sparks love, nightmares, adventure, passion, or discovery, we’re excited to explore its depths.

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