Have you ever taken a course in Creative Writing, or are you enrolled on one right now? Have you ever thought of taking it up as a career? Or are you just looking to make some additional income to pay off your student debts, by getting a particularly creative well-recieved piece of coursework into print?
If so, New Dawn Publishers Ltd is here for you. As any aspiring professional author will soon find out, getting on the career ladder is no walk in the park. This isn't helped by the two 'default' submissions policies employed by all other fiction publishers in the UK- either the ultra-exclusionist, risk-averse approach of only accepting manuscripts solicited by a literary agent, or the 'come-on-down' approach of accepting unsolicited manuscripts from anyone who can be bothered to send it. But why should this be the case? Creative Writing degrees have been offered in institutions across the U.K for so many decades- why does the publishing industry still decry these qualifications to be all but worthless?
Not any more. Here at New Dawn Publishers, we're looking to change the way things work in the world of fiction publishing, trail-blazing towards a better, fairer system. In our book, if you have the qualifications, or are currently working towards getting them, that's enough. Your work doesn't have to be solicited by an agent; in fact, we'd much rather it wasn't, because in our opinion, both publishers and authors lose more roayalties that way. But because we don't just accept submissions from anyone, we can give each and every submission the time and due consideration it deserves before making the crucial decision whether or not to take it on.
We accept fiction of all genres and all lengths- full length novels, novellas and short stories*. In responding to submissions we make an effort to supply constructive feedback whenever possible, citing the key reasons for our decision and outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your work. And if we do decide to take your work on, we'll be here for you, ready to give you our support and guidance whenever you need it, working closely with you at every stage of the editing process to make your work the best it can can be. To submit your work to us, simply send up to three sample chapters and a one-paragraph blurb, together with a brief section (no more than 600 words long) outlining your credentials and explaining why you and your work deserve to get published, to newdawnpublishersltd@gmail.com. And until the 13th May, unless you let us know that you don't want them to be, any submissions will also be entered into our BEST & BRIGHTEST competition, with the opportunity to get your work published in an anthology and win a cash prize!
*-those submitting short stories will need to send the entirety of the work, along with a full synopsis instead of a blurb.