Submissions for Traditional Publishing

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We are currently closed for submissions. Please check back in the fall for more information, when we expect to re-open for submissions for publishing in 2024 and 2025. 

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please send a correctly structured and informative query letter and a 1-2 page synopsis for your short story, novella, or novel. We have limited slots open for literary (thru our Chrysalis Collection imprint), mystery/thriller, and spec-fiction stories. (We will consider narrative memoirs.) We publish for the adult, new adult, and young adult markets. We do not publish nonfiction, poetry, children’s picture, or self-help books.

To submit your proposal, email attached files (Word, OpenOffice, .rtf, or .pdf) to mail@papillon-du-pere.com.

Once your proposal is received, we will contact you to acknowledge receipt. We may then contact you, usually within 2 weeks, to request sample chapters* (first 1500 words for short stories) and subsequently, usually within a further 4 weeks, with our evaluation and a possible request for the full manuscript.

* Please be aware that as a small indie press, we pay professional submission editor associates to evaluate your sample chapters. To help us cover our costs (and to encourage only serious submissions) we will ask for a one-off, non-returnable fee of US $30 to evaluate your sample chapters. 

This is the ONLY time we will ask for a contribution before or after publishing your work. If we subsequently request the full manuscript and once accepted, there is no further investment from the author.

While as a small press we regret we can’t offer advances to authors, we offer a publishing contract in which we assume all upfront activities and associated expenses such as book formatting, print & digital covers, flap copy, sales page blurbs, and author bios, as well as ARC reviews and core promotional activities.  

Thank you for considering us and for your patience and understanding.