SUBMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN

We are interested in publishing high-concept, original, unique work. 
We accept novels, nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, and short story collections. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Manuscripts must be submitted as a .doc, .docx, or .odt file, attached to an email. Comics and Graphic Novels can be submitted as PDFs.

2. Email subject must be formatted as follows: '[TITLE], [WORD COUNT], by [YOUR NAME]'. If your email subject is not formatted this way, your submission will be automatically rejected.

3. The body of the email must only contain a 100-500 word synopsis of the work submitted. Please do not include other information, such as a bio, previous publications, and/or awards received for other work.

4. Submissions must be at least 40,000 words. This rule does not apply to comics/graphic novels.

5. Submissions must be in English.

6. Submissions made (or contributed to) with AI will be immediately rejected. Anyone submitting work that was made with or incorporates AI will be permanently blacklisted from submitting to Solar Press.

7. We are currently only accepting finished manuscripts. 

We are open to reprinting previously published work which has since fallen out of print. If this is the case for your submission, please include information regarding when and where the book was previously published in the submission email.

TIPS:

1. We are looking for high-concept, original work, and value creativity above all else. We welcome experimental work that plays with literary conventions, and work that combines or cuts across genres.

2. We value quality prose. We love writers with strong, unique voices.

3. Solar Press is a publisher catering to an adult audience. We are not looking for YA, middlegrade, or children's fiction. We are also not currently looking for historical fiction, romantasy, or current events nonfiction.

4. We are particularly interested in science-fiction, horror, LGBT interest fiction, philosophy, occult nonfiction, and historical nonfiction which covers overlooked/forgotten moments, people, groups, and/or movements. 

Some of our favourite authors:

William S. Burroughs, Clive Barker, Ryu Murakami, Shirley Jackson, Michael Crichton, Yukio Mishima, Peter Watts, JG Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Robert A Heinlein, Michael McDowell, Philip K Dick, Lionel Shriver, Nicholson Baker, Sylvia Plath, Daniel Clowes, Dennis O'Neill, Colin Wilson, Joan Didion, Jean Baudrillard, Rene Girard, Maya Deren, Annie Jacobsen, Riane Eisler, Phil Hine, Joscelyn Godwin...  


PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:
Submissions@SolarPressBooks.com