Flooding Island Press

Flooding Island Press is a new publisher looking for a good story told well. Established to publish high-quality, engaging literature, Flooding Island is currently accepting submissions for its forthcoming catalog and welcomes agented as well as un-agented submissions from writers with previous traditional publication credits or significant social media presence.

We are interested in the following within a genre of literature we call 'The New Noir':

• Literary fiction
• Literary crime fiction
• True crime for a positive social impact

Even with the advances of global print-on-demand and book distribution, there is still a shortage of excellent writing. Surprise us. Send us something undeniable that you know will light a fire with readers.

Flooding Island Press is a self-sufficient and highly selective traditional publisher. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, we will negotiate an advance payment and sales royalties to the author. Flooding Island will pay all editing, production, and marketing expenses. Flooding Island has never, and will never, charge authors fees whatsoever. This means we are looking to generate revenue from readers and not from the authors. As such, we are selectively looking for manuscripts by writers who already have a solid social media presence, a loyal following of readers, or such a powerfully and undeniably great manuscript that we feel it will be worth our financial risk to publish and market it.

Submission guidelines

• Your entire query, along with a writing sample, must not be more than 750 words (about 3 typed pages). If it is longer, or if it contains any attachments, it will be ignored and deleted. Round down, not up (The Gettysburg Address was just 272 words).
• eMail all queries to submissions [at] floodingIsland [dot] com
• Absolutely NO attachments of any sort. Your query must be plain text in an email.
• Only query for projects that are complete, well edited and polished.
• Format the subject line of your query as such: Your Name / Project Genre / Project Title.
• Your query should contain an introduction, a summary of your project, relevant social media presence, relevant publication history and/or experience, and your best example of writing from your project.
• We will acknowledge receipt of all received queries at least once every two weeks, but after that, we will not respond unless we are interested in reading more. If you have not heard back from us within six weeks after the acknowledgment, assume that your project is not suited for us.
• Simultaneous queries are fine.

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and more books coming soon.

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Contact

Our general email is: info [at] floodingIsland [dot] com
Submissions: submissions [at] floodingIsland [dot] com

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