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SUBMISSIONS

Counterpoise Press is a traditional advance and royalty paying publisher for fiction works. We are a fantasy specialty publisher but are open to other genres. Submissions are currently closed

Manuscript Wish List: (includes but is not limited to):

  • Young Adult High Fantasy, New Adult High Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Speculative, and Dystopian.  

  • We’re especially interested in YA fantasy based in mythology across cultures, characters with disability, chronic illness or mental illness, Deaf characters, and LGBTQIA+ stories. 

Our Favorites: 

  • Game of Thrones 

  • The Witcher 

  • The Throne of Glass Series 

  • The ACOTAR Series 

  • The Crescent City Series 

  • Eragon 

  • The Iron Fey Series 

  • Handmaid’s Tale

  • Shadow and Bone 

  • Six of Crows

  • Nevernight

  • The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue 

  • The Cruel Prince 

  • The Grace Year 

  • Soulswift 

  • Killing Eve 

  • Yellowjackets

  • The OA

  • The Society

  • Sex Education

  • Heartstopper 

  • The Golden Compass

  • The Chronicles of Narnia 

  • Tell Me Lies

  • Fablehaven

  • Red Rising

  • Gregor the Overlander 

  • The Lord of the Rings

  • The Last of Us

For now, we are not the right publisher for nonfiction, contemporary romance, mystery, horror, middle grade, literary, poetry, short stories, erotica, women’s fiction, inspirational/Christian fiction, picture books, screen plays, or chapter books. 

You are welcome to submit books written in English if you are from outside the U.S., but please note this in your query. 

For legal reasons you must be over 18 to submit a manuscript. 

Submission Guidelines:

 

Please send your query to our submissions email once we reopen and include: 

  • “Query: [your book’ title]” in the subject line. 

  • Your query letter pasted into the body of the email. 

  • The first 5 pages of your manuscript pasted into the body of the email (no attachments, please). 

  • Only completed, unpublished manuscripts will be considered (meaning they cannot be previously self published). 

  • Send full or partial manuscripts only when requested.

  • Be absolutely sure your writing is the best it can be! 

  • Format your manuscript properly. We’re not overly strict about minor details, but we do expect manuscripts to align with industry standards. 

  • Follow these links for more information on how to format your query and your manuscript. If you are unsure how to properly write a query letter, please check out this article

 

*Please note that if you do not follow submission guidelines your email will be discarded* 

 

Hannah will respond to your query within 4-6 weeks.

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