Submissions

General Submissions are now open, please see our criteria below.
Submissions for Queer Life, Queer Love: The Second Anthology have closed and the book will be published in May 2023.

We are interested in upmarket fiction, crime and thriller, memoir, biography and travel.  Our queer list publishes both fiction and biography.  Please consider whether your book would work on our list by browsing our recent titles on the website.  We do not publish children’s books, YA, military history, cookery, lifestyle, sci fi, fantasy or poetry.

Please check that your submission meets our criteria, we cannot respond to those that don’t.

 All submissions to be sent via email as either a word doc or PDF to info@muswell-press.co.uk   Details of what to include:

Fiction: Please send a one page pitch, plus your CV or biographical note, together with the full MS as a word doc or PDF.

Non-Ficton:  Please send a pitch explaining what qualifies you to write the book and who the audience is.  We’d also like a detailed synopsis and the first three chapters, as a minimum, to give us a sense of your prose style, plus your CV.

We are a small publisher and take on a maximum of 12 new books each year, both agented and non-agented, so both our time and space on the list is limited.  That said, we love discovering new writers, so please bear with us, it may take up to 3 months to respond.

We are not able to offer editorial advice on unsuccessful submissions but recommend the organisations below who can help.