Submissions

If you would like to submit your work to one of our three imprints - Beautiful Books, Burning House or Bloody Books - please read the following carefully.

We are no longer accepting submissions of books for children and do not accept submissions of the following categories: Science Fiction; Fantasy; Poetry; Short Stories.

To submit for our Read By Dawn anthology, please scroll down and follow the specific instructions below.

Submission instructions:

Please send all of (but only) the following: a cover letter, including a brief biography; a one or two-page synopsis; 30 – 50 pages of your manuscript, which must include the first chapter (or 10 pages) but, if you wish, can be a selection of excerpts.

You must enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope (or include an email address) in order for us to reply to you. If you would like us to return your material, please ensure that your envelope has sufficient postage on it. If submitting from overseas, you may include a cheque for postage instead.

If we are interested, we will ask you to send us further material, usually in the form of data.

Due to the volume of material we receive, we cannot undertake to comment on submissions and ordinarily do not do so. However, we try to be as helpful as time permits.

Please submit your material by post to:

Submissions Department

Beautiful Books Limited

36-38 Glasshouse Street

London W1B 5DL

Read By Dawn submissions

Submissions for Read by Dawn III have now all been received, and the book will be published in May 08. Submissions for volume four will be called later on in the summer of 08.