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, spec-fiction, and (thru our Faire L'Amour imprint) adult romance stories. We publish for the adult and new 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 We do not publish nonfiction, poetry, children’s picture, or self-help books.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, to encourage only genuine submissions (and as we pay professional submission editor associates to evaluate your sample chapters), to help us cover our costs 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.

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.