Blossom Spring Publishing accepts unsolicited manuscripts. Our aim is to break down barriers between publishers, authors and readers. Everyone is welcome to submit their story to us regardless if agented or otherwise, their age, faith, disability, race, gender, or whatever their background is. It doesn’t matter if it is your first story or you are an established author, we will read every submission sent to us.

We accept manuscripts for fiction, non-fiction, short stories, novellas and children’s stories with illustrations.

At present we are particularly interested in the following:

Fiction

• commercial women’s fiction, including historical romance and saga
• crime and psychological thrillers
• paranormal and mystery
• children’s fiction

Non-fiction

• humour
• health & well-being

But if you think you’ve written a bestseller that doesn’t fit into the above genres then please do send it to us.

We do not accept

• poetry
• stories that carry a theme for one occasion only such as Christmas, Thanks Giving, Easter etc.
• work written in languages other than English
• cook books

Fiction

The manuscript should have an exciting plot and be carefully planned, with an ending that is not predictable! The interest should be generated by the characters themselves, making us care about what happens to them.  We desire novels that will take the reader out of the realm of everyday existence. We don’t publish extreme profanity which we consider unnecessary in any credible literary work. However, a small amount of mild bad language is acceptable, if relevant to the character. We also discourage stories that exploit sexual abuse, abuse to children, extreme violence, racism and promotion of hatred. Above all, we are looking for originality and we like stories that show a potential for a series!

Non-Fiction

Innovative material with a positive message, interesting and facts that have been researched thoroughly.

Children’s Books

We look for children’s stories that are fun, exciting, engaging, educational and ideally has a moral to the story.

If you would like us to consider your manuscript we ask that you use our online form below.

There are two possible replies you will receive from us if we enjoy and think that your story would be a good fit for us:

1. You will be offered a Traditional Publishing agreement. We do not offer an advance on sales but we will cover ALL publishing costs.
2. You will be offered our Package B Publishing agreement. This is given to authors that show potential in their work but have yet to establish a large readership.  With this agreement we ask authors to pay a token fee towards the publishing costs. (*Note that this is not vanity publishing. A vanity publisher will agree to publish any work and as a rule they do not offer mainstream publishing with traditional contracts. In other words, they will say yes to every submission!) Our fee can vary depending on the type of book you have written, but we do our very best to keep it low cost and pay as much as we can for you. By offering this agreement it means that we are not at a complete financial loss if your story doesn’t sell to our expectations. We have introduced this type of contract with the intention of giving authors a fair chance to start their writing career and then move them onto our traditional publishing contract as soon as possible.*WE NO LONGER ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS BY POST.
   
   Before starting the form it is recommended that you prepare the following:

Make sure that your name and email address are shown clearly at the top of your synopsis and manuscript.

• For fiction – a one or two page synopsis and the first three chapters of your manuscript. For non-fiction, short stories and novellas, you may send us your complete manuscript.
• All manuscripts should be in 1.5 line spacing and font size 12, chapters and pages also numbered with indented paragraphs. No footers or headers and edited to a good standard.  We have high regard for good presentation. Your manuscript could be turned down simply because the presentation is poor or not easy to read. Your complete manuscript should be sent as an attachment in Word Document or PDF file.
• Children’s stories intended as a picture book MUST be submitted with illustrations, or at least a sample illustration of the main characters. We no do not provide illustrations and will not consider picture books without a sample illustration/s.
• Submissions to Blossom Spring Publishing are confidential. We carefully consider all submissions, but because of the high volume we receive we cannot give individual feedback or editorial guidance. We will reply to you within 4 weeks if we would like to offer you a publishing agreement. There is no need to follow up your submission. If you don’t hear from us it means we are unable to offer you a publishing contract at this time, but we thank you for giving us the opportunity to read your work.

Please only submit one story at a time. If you don’t receive a reply after the time frame stated above, you may send us another story if you wish. We will not read the same story twice, so please make sure it is new to us.

Your Full Name (required)

Pen Name If Different To Your Real Name

Your Email (required)

Book Title (required)

Country (required)

Tell Us Briefly About Yourself and Your Writing
Achievements/Goals

Upload Your Manuscript (only .pdf or .doc files permitted) (required)

Upload 1 or 2 Page Synopsis (only .pdf or .doc files permitted) (required)