interested in: Picture Books, Novels and Novellas for children.

client list: "Memoirs of a Camel" by Kathleen Karr, "The Rainbow Kite" by Marlene Fanta Shyer, "The Great Chicken Debacle" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

interested in: Blueroad Press is interested in seeing book-length new work that fits with their focus of road stories and the lifelong preoccupation with the influence that the road holds over people's lives. They are looking for high-quality literary fiction and works of non-ficition. They do not accept general submissions of poetry, children’s literature, or genre fiction.

client list: "Stompin’ at The Grand Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse" by Philip S. Bryant.

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

interested in: Blueroad Press is interested in seeing book-length new work that fits with their focus of road stories and the lifelong preoccupation with the influence that the road holds over people's lives. They are looking for high-quality literary fiction and works of non-ficition. They do not accept general submissions of poetry, children’s literature, or genre fiction.

client list: "Stompin’ at The Grand Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse" by Philip S. Bryant.

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

interested in: Ninety-Six Press publishes only poetry-usually, books by single authors from South Carolina.

client list: "Predicaments" by Wiiliam Aarnes, "Walking Like a Water Spider" by Keller Freeman

send: Query Only

looking for: Poetry

interested in: Founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy, Riverhead Books is now well-established as a publisher of bestselling literary fiction and quality non-fiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead Books has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers. Riverhead's books have won Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Critic Circle Awards, and numerous other distinctions.

client list: Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, the Dalai Lama

send: Query Only

looking for: Novel

interested in: Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.

client list: "Home: Social Essays" by Amiri Baraka, "Abortion & Life" by Jennifer Baumgardner, "Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth" Edited by Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock

send: Query Only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

interested in: Little, Brown and Company is part of the Hachette Book Group USA. Publishes literary novels, thrillers, biography, and narrative non-fiction.

client list: Martin Amis, Michael Connelly, R. Crumb, John Feinstein, Janet Fitch, Peter Guralnick, Mark Leyner, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Nick Tosches, David Foster Wallace, and Stephen Wright.

looking for: Novel

interested in: With a growing Pocket Books hardcover list and the successful publishing of such books as Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird, Jennifer Weiner's Good In Bed, and Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui, came the founding, in June 2001 of a new imprint -- Atria Books. A commercial fiction and non-fiction publishing house pledged to bring the world a wealth of timely, important, and entertaining publications. Atria Books is the home of several best-selling authors including Judith McNaught, Vince Flynn, Jude Deveraux and his Holiness the Dalai Lama. Atria Books also publishes literary fiction and serious non-fiction hardcover books as well as trade paperbacks under the Washington Square Press imprint.

client list: "The First Commandment: A Thriller" by Brad Thor, "Handle with Care: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult

looking for: Novel

interested in: The editors at Kore Press will accept submissions for full-length books during our open submission period each January. The open submissions period is not a contest; manuscripts are not reviewed anonymously. Please understand Editors are under no obligation to publish any manuscripts they receive during open submissions period. They expect to publish three to four titles a year, including poetry and short fiction contest winner.

Kore Press seeks book-length manuscripts in poetry, memoir, short fiction and creative nonfiction, written by women, that reflect the highest standards of literary quality. Kore is open to work that is genre-bending and/or experimental.

client list: Adrienne Rich, Eavan Boland, Tedi Lopez Mills, Nancy Mairs, Ani DiFranco, Ofelia Zepeda, and Barbara Cully, Jennifer Barber, Deborah Fries, Elline Lipkin, and Sandra Lim

send: Complete MS

looking for: Poetry

interested in: Romance novels, mysteries, suspense, westerns. "Star Trek" novels under its PocketBook imprint. Children's books, fantasy, mystery, historical, Young Adult, contemporary Fiction.

client list: "Star Trek" Novels, Kate Morton, "Blaze: A Novel" By Richard Bachman Foreword by Stephen King, "Spiderwick" by Holly Black

looking for: Novel