Targeted Directory of literary agents and editors of commercial fiction
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Ballantine Books | Bantam Dell | Del Rey (Penguin Random House / PRH)
www.randomhousebooks.com/imprints/
FirstinitialLastname@
Susanna Porter
Anne Speyer
Sara Weiss
Jennifer Hershey
Lexi Batsides
lbatsides@penguinrandomhouse.com
Chelcee Johns
Jesse Shuman
Hilary Rubin Teeman
hteeman@penguinrandomhouse.com
Julian Pavia
Emily Hartley
ehartley@penguinrandomhouse.com
Andra Miller
Kara Cesare
Caroline Weishuhn
Shauna Summers (Bantam Dell)
Ann Groell (Del Rey)
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Bancroft Press
P.O. Box 65360
Baltimore, MD 21209
410.358.0658 - 800.637.7377 - fax 410.764.1967
Submit to: Bruce Bortz
bruceb@bancroftpress.com
Please submit an entire manuscript, or as many chapters as you have written. Be sure to include a cover letter that details who you see as the audience for your work as well as a resume of your writing experience (any periodicals in which you’ve been published, any degrees related to writing you possess, etc).
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Baskerville | John Murray Press (Hachette)
www.johnmurraypress.co.uk
Jade Chandler
Yassine Belkacemi
Crime and Thrillers
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Beacon Press
www.beacon.org
Submissions: editorial@beacon.org
Check when fiction submissions are open
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Beaufort Books
www.beaufortbooks.com
https://beaufortbooks.submittable.com/Submit
Margot Atwell
margot@beaufortbooks.com
Beaufort Books welcomes fiction and non-fiction submissions from all writers.
For a fiction title, please include a brief description and three sample chapters.
Please send all materials as one single WORD attachment to submissions@beaufortbooks.com. Include your email address and name on each page of your submission.
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B&H Publishing Group
127 Ninth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37234
www.bhpublishinggroup.com
Karen Ball
karen.ball@bhpublishinggroup.com
Suspense, Christian themes
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Bella Books
PO Box 10543
Tallahassee, FL 32302
(800) 729-4992
www.bellabooks.com
Linda Hill
linda@bellabooks.com
Mystery, Suspense, lesbian themes
WEBSITE FLAGGED AS MALICIOUS
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Bell Bridge Books
P.O. Box 300921
Memphis, TN 38130
Fax: (901) 344-9068
Submit a Query. Attach synopsis and three (3) chapters to your email.
BelleBooks@BelleBooks.com
www.bellbridgebooks.com
BelleBooks, Inc. was founded in 1999 with a focus on Southern fiction and has since broadened its offerings with the addition of a second imprint—Bell Bridge Books—in 2008. In 2013, an acquisition added a third imprint—ImaJinn Books. Currently the company publishes approximately 70-80 original titles per year (print and eBook simultaneously) in a variety of genres, which include: mystery/suspense, fantasy, science fiction, young adult, romance, general fiction, women's fiction, and more.
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Berkley (Penguin Random House / PRH)
www.penguin.com/publishers/berkley/
FirstinitialLastname@penguinrandomhouse.com
Ivan Held
ivan.held@us.penguingroup.com
Amanda Bergeron
Miranda Hill
Sarah Blumenstock
Jen Monroe
jmonroe@penguinrandomhouse.com
Ellen Edwards
Michelle Vega
Michelle.Vega@us.penguingroup.com
Cindy Hwang
chwang@penguinrandomhouse.com
Kate Seaver
kseaver@penguinrandomhouse.com
Jenn Snyder
Danielle Perez
dperez@penguinrandomhouse.com
Julie Mianecki
Michelle Vega
Kristine Swartz
Kerry Donovan
Kerry.donovan@us.penguingroup.com
Jessica Wade
Jessica.wade@us.penguingroup.com
Tom Colgan
thomas.colgan@us.penguingroup.com
Sareer Khader
Liz Sellers
Anne Sowards (Fantasy, Romance)
Angela Kim
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Birlinn | Polygon
West Newington House 10 Newington Road Edinburgh EH9 1QS
www.birlinn.co.uk
info@birlinn.co.uk
Alison Rae - Commissioning Editor
Hugh Andrew
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Bitter Lemon Press / Wilmington Square Books
47 Wilmington Square London WC1X 0ET United Kingdom
www.bitterlemonpress.com
Submit to:
books@bitterlemonpress.com
Bitter Lemon Press is pleased to receive submissions in the literary crime and thriller area, as described below.
Our books are entertaining and gripping novels that expose the darker side of foreign places. They explore what lies just beneath the surface of the bustling life of cities such as Paris, Havana, Munich and Mexico City.
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Black & White Publishing
Nautical House, 104 Commercial Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6NF
www.blackandwhitepublishing.com
submissions@blackandwhitepublishing.com
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Black Coat Press
c/o Greg M. Seigel
16501 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 451
Encino, CA 91436
www.blackcoatpress.com
info@blackcoatpress.com
The best of popular French literature for the English readers
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc. (Hachette)
151 W. 19th Street, 12th Floor,
New York NY 10011.
(212)647-9336
www.blackdogandleventhal.com
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Black Moses Press
Windsor, ON, Canada
www.blackmosespress.com
submissions@blackmosspress.com
See website for mswl
Canadian Authors only
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Blackstone Publishing
www.blackstonepublishing.com
Haila Williams
Vikki Warner
vikki.warner@blackstoneaudio.com
Rick Bleiweiss
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Bleak House Books DEFUNCT
www.bleakhousebooks.com
submissions@bleakhousebooks.com
Benjamin LeRoy
Ben@bleakhousebooks.com
Speaking of our niche, ours is pretty tight. We don't do cozies, sci-fi, westerns, thrillers, suspense, horror, paranormal, vampires, or children's. We do hardboiled/noir books with real type protagonists who are usually quite flawed, maybe not even always "good" guys/girls. Our books are much more about the people in them and the way they live in the world. There is usually an element of crime. Sometimes there is not.
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Bloodhound Books
www.bloodhoundbooks.com
submissions@bloodhoundbooks.com
Open unagented submissions. Digital and POD.
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Bloody Brits Press, UK
www.bloodybritspress.com
Was run by Val McDermid
DEFUNCT
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Bloomsbury (UK, US)
www.bloomsbury.com
Paul Baggaley
paul.baggaley@bloomsbury.com
Emma Herdman, Publishing Director
Alexis Kirschbaum
alexis.kirschbaum@bloomsbury.com
Daniel Loedel
Daniel.Loedel@bloomsbury.com
Callie Garnett
Anton Mueller
anton.mueller@bloomsbury.com
Grace McNamee
Grace.McNamee@bloomsbury.com
Elizabeth Ellis (US)
(Catherine) Callie Garnett
Nancy S. Miller
Alexandra Pringle
Allegra le Fanu (UK)
allegra.lefanu@bloomsbury.com
Hannah Sandford
hannah.sandford@bloomsbury.com
Alex Borbolla
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Blue Moon Publishers
Stratford, ON, Canada
www.bluemoonpublishers.com
Form online
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Bold Type Books | Hachette
www.boldtypebooks.com
Hillary Brenhouse
Claire Zuo
Mystery and Thrillers
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Boldwood Books
23 Bowerdean Street London SW6 3TN
www.boldwoodbooks.com
Sarah Ritherdon
Emily Ruston
eruston@boldwoodbooks.com
Megan Townsend
Caroline Ridding
Tara Loder
Periodic open submissions
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Bonnier Books / Zaffre / Embla (Digital First) / Piccadilly Press / Hot Key Books
www.bonnierbooks.co.uk
Sophie Orme Publishing Director (Zaffre / Manilla Press)
Sara Bauer - Zaffre
sarah.bauer@bonnierbooks.co.uk
Kelly Smith
- Zaffre
kelly.smith@bonnierbooks.co.uk
Margaret Stead
Kate Parkin - Zaffre
Claire Johnson-Creek
kate.parkin@bonnierbooks.co.uk
Jane Snelgrove - Embla
jane.snelgrove@bonnierbooks.co.uk
Hannah Smith - Embla
hannah.smith@bonnierbooks.co.uk
Emma Matthewson, Executive Publisher
Georgia Murray, Commissioning Editor
Deirdre Nolan, Publishing Director Bonnier Ireland
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BookLand Press
15 Allstate Parkway, Suite 600, Markham, Ontario L3R 5B4.
books@booklandpress.com,
www.booklandpress.com
Contact person: Robert Morgan.
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Bookouture
Digital-First, part of Hachette (St. Martin's, etc); UK
www.bookouture.com
Open submissions. Submit full MSS and synopsis to:
www.bookouture.com/submit-your-manuscript/
or pitch@bookouture.com
Agented and Non-agented submissions welcome.
Many commissioning / acquiring editors listed on website; they want "very commercial novels".
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Books in Motion,
9922 E. Montgomery, Suite 31,
Spokane WA 99206 (509) 922-1646
Gary Challeneder, president
Q with SASE + synopsis + 1st chapter. Does audiobooks.
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Borough Press (HarperCollins UK)
www.boroughpress.co.uk
Runs periodic open submissions:
www.boroughpress.co.uk/submissions/
Carla Josephson
carla.josephson@harpercollins.co.uk
Suzie Doore
suzie.doore@harpercollins.co.uk
Ore Agbaje-Williams
Ann Bissell
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