SUBMISSIONS

Bridge House publishes books which are a little bit different. Making Changes, Alternative Renditions and An Advent Calendar of Stories give you the flavour of what we are looking for.

Please see our submission process below for details on how to submit your work to us for consideration.

We are particularly keen to promote new writers and believe that our approach is friendly and supportive to encourage those who may not have been published previously. We are also interested in published writers and welcome submissions from all authors who believe they have a story that would tie into one of the themed anthologies listed below.

Winter Stories for Little Ones

Now closed for submissions

Modern Fables

Remember the Aesop's Fable collection? Well we want some interesting and thought-provoking new version of fables, written for adults. 3,000 – 6,000 words. 

Deadline: 30^th July 2010  Publication: January 2011

Just added!

2011 Children's Charity Book

The 2011 chosen charity is Children's Hospices UK and we are looking for stories suitable for children of junior school age (7-10 years) 1000-3000 words, the theme must be uplifting! We are hoping to invite a well known children's writer to be the guest writer (not confirmed yet.) £1 from the sale of every copy will be donated to the charity and we will also ask the authors to donate their royalities.

Deadline: 30^th September 2010  Publication: May 2011

Deadline: 30^th October 2010  Publication: November 2011 

Crime Stories

Yes- after various requests we have decided to produce a collection of stories about murder and all that surrounds it. Your story can be a traditional crime story with traditional detective or it can be something a little different... but we are always looking for originality. Of course we want plenty of blood and intrigue... 3000-6000 words.

Deadline:  31st January 2011  Publication: January 2012

Science Fiction

Deadline:  31st March 2011  Publication: March 2012

And check out our short story competition:

2010 Short Story Competion

 

Submission Process

Please email your submission to admin@bridgehousepublishing.co.uk

Do follow these rules. They have been put together to protect your work and to help us to avoid mistakes in the publishing process. Though a fabulous story will still grab our attention, all other things being equal, we'll go for the one which needs the least editing and is correctly formatted.

• Your submission should be sent as a Word document attachment to you email.
• Use standard format: double-spaced, indent paragraphs, justified left, ragged right.
• House-style: double curly quotes for direct speech, italics for thoughts
• Please use a header and footer on your document. In the header, please put your name as you would like it to appear in the book, should we accept you, the anthology to which you are submitting, the full title of the story, the page number and the number of pages. Use the “view” function on Word. e.g.

Real Bible Stories Mantek’s Journey              2 of 17                                                 Gill James

• In the footer, please put your full contact details and your name as you would like it to appear in the contract should your work be accepted. E.g

Gillian M. James, 43, The Crescent, Benton, Lancs M24 9BC, 0161 453 675, g.james@bestinternet.com    

• Please name your document the collection, the title of the story and your surname. You may shorten this if you wish; e.g.

Open Curious Incident Haddon.doc

• In the subject of the email, please put Submission for …. E.g.

Submission for Ghost Stories 2009

• In the body of the email, tell us a bit about yourself. This is just so that we get to know you and will not be used for anything. No more than 200 words, please.  
• At the end of the submission please give us a bio of 50-70 words as you would like it to appear in the book.  Do include your web site address and if your story has appeared elsewhere, please mention it here. You may if you wish also include a dedication. You can if you wish reuse some of the introduction in your email.   

Decisions will be made within a few weeks of each submission deadline. However, we may reject your manuscript before that time if it is obviously unsuitable. Do try again.

If we hang on to your script for longer, this is a good sign. We may ask for revisions, sometimes substantial. Some scripts need less revision. Those are of course more attractive to us.

There have been a lot of “almosts” for all of our anthologies. We hope those people will try for one of our other anthologies.

We offer a high royalty – it is in effect a 50% profit share pro rata. That’s the equivalent of a single author 15%, after first 150 books have been sold. Authors may also purchase books at 75% of retail price and may sell them on. They still get the profit share royalty on these.    

We do not have a massive publicity budget – we market to the big guys and hope you will do the small stuff, but we’ll give you masses of help and pointers.

Everyone involved in our first anthologies will probably agree it has all been great fun.   

 

We will acknowledge receipt of all submissions within 3 days- if you do not hear from us (unless you are notified otherwise by an out of office reply) then we advise you to drop us a line to check we have it.

 

If you have any queries regarding submissions, either the process or the titles for which we are currently accepting submissions, please contact us.