Vamplit Publishing is no longer accepting submission of unsolicited manuscripts, but we ask that you submit a query letter using our contact form. The query letter should include a word count and pertinent facts about yourself as a writer, including your age and your particular interest in genre fiction. We will then contact you via email and ask for a brief synopsis of your story that gives a clear idea of your plot and character development, a single A4 page is enough and the first three chapters of you novel or novella. If you are submitting a short story or poetry collection, please email a representative selection of your work. Should your manuscript be accepted, please note the following information.
1. Vamplit Publishing publishes only Gothic, vamplit, horror, fantasy and crime fiction in ebook format. Please do not submit any other type of fiction or non-fiction.
2. All material should be the author’s own original work. Stories that contain scenes or plot lines that are very similar to previously published work are in breach of copyright law and are not acceptable.
3. All queries should be made through our website contact form and all submissions should be emailed as .doc attachments. Please include a title page that has the title of your novel and your pen name and at the bottom left corner your name, address and email address.
4. All manuscripts will be read, but as volume is high please be patient, we will contact you when we’ve read your work. Please do not email regarding your manuscript, unless you have a specific point to make. You will be notified by email as soon as your work has been reviewed.
5. We do not accept manuscripts that are being considered by another publisher. We do not accept multiple submissions. A literary agent is not necessary in order to submit.
6. These submission guidelines are to help you in understanding our publishing criteria. However, after September there will be no better way to determine what we are looking for than reading ebooks by our authors.
7. We offer the same contract to all authors and a copy of our author contract is available here for authors to read.
8. Because we do read every manuscript sent to us the time between being sent a manuscript and acceptance or rejection of a novel is fairly long and drawn out. If you are concerned and haven’t heard from us please contact us and we will tell you exactly where your manuscript stands in our list. Once you have been offered a contract to publish your novel, depending on the amount of work needed, you will be working one on one with a professional editor that will aim to publish your novel within eight to ten weeks.
9. Although we do publish novels suitable for an adult audience, we do not consider any material that contains sexual torture, cruelty or any kind of abuse of children. We will not consider any manuscript that incites hatred or violence and if submitted it will be rejected without hesitation.