Independent publishing company looking for submissions of literary merit, not genre work.

Saw them mentioned in Myslexia, so some of you might want to consider submitting to them...

Not me sadly, they don't want romance unless it is something very different.

Here's the link:

http://www.authorzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2b06c90aa63b02d247953b8b5c32aaf7&postid=5059

submissions of literary merit, not genre work.

Of course, because genre work can have no literary merit.

Sorry, Case, not your fault, but statements like that really get my goat.

JB

No, it is my fault, JB - i think i was subconsciously - and defensively - posting there what i assume they meant! This is what they actually say:

. We are looking for books of literary merit and that are different from the norm. We will not publish genre works (Westerns, romances, detective fiction) unless they seriously question and subvert their generic foundations and have something to say outside of a good plot and stock characters.

*Sniff*

I'm sure they secretly read chick lit...

I submitted to them a couple of months ago and got a polite reply from James Topham saying he'd have a look. I don't hold out much hope, but at least I got an acknowlegement that it had arrived, which made a nice change.

Cheers

J

Good luck with it, JMac.

Cheers, Casey. This is the old manuscript which I'm still occasionally sending out to anything that looks hopeful. If I'm still doing that when the WIP is finished, some agents/publishers are going to be very surprised to be getting a second submission the day after they reject the first. I'll look productive if nothing else ;-)

J

...And just to follow that up, got bounced again. Oh, well.

Bad luck, JMac. Keep going!