
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.
Recently Updated-
2011 Charity Book now seeking submissions
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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: 30th 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: 30th September 2010 Publication: May 2011
Angel Stories
Do you believe in angels? Do you think they take an interest in the lives of mortals? Could you tell the story of such an encounter? We're looking for entertaining, heart-warming and thought-provoking stories to do with angels, 2500 - 6,000 words.
This volume will be marketed through normal trade channels and also through New Age Channels.
Deadline: 30th 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
And also by popular demand we are looking for cross-over
stories that will appeal to adults and young adults that are original
and mind bending Sci Fi stories. Bridge House are always on the look out
for something different- so let your imagination get stretched...
stories up to 8000 words.
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.