Submissions & Permissions
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are OPEN!
Hello everyone,
We are Matthew James Publishing, a traditional publishing imprint and part of the Andrews UK Limited family of publishers.
Our focus is on greatness from small beginnings — growing our reach alongside our authors whilst continuing to provide a high-quality, independent publishing experience to everyone that we work with. By focusing on what we do best, we can provide the best home for your book.
Whilst we’re open to receiving any and all submissions, the submission guidelines below should help you in providing your work to us.
Our current focus is on General Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Thrillers.
What do you need to provide:
- Submissions to be provided digitally only (email) in Word document format. [PDFs are also accepted]
- Completed manuscript if available (edited and proofed is a huge plus) or the first 3 chapters.
- Proposed title and word count of your manuscript.
- A full synopsis, including the ending, as well as a short blurb for the book.
- If you have already published the title yourself, let us know how, when and where it is available.
- If you have any other supporting material, such as a cover you have designed or any internal illustration work please provide it. We may not use any of it but it is a good indicator of your vision for the book.
Supporting information [not essential but always appreciated]:
- Preferred contact method and details
- A short author biography
- If you have previously released other titles, please reference them
- A short outline of any series potential and plans for subsequent titles if applicable
- A chapter breakdown with key events for each chapter listed
Please send all submissions to submissions@matthewjamespublishing.com
What happens next?
If we like your submission we will get back to you to discuss how we can work together and what the next steps will be. As a company, we believe it is important to get to know each other before we start anything, so our first step would be to set up a call to chat further.
Unfortunately, as a small company, we cannot guarantee a response to every submission we receive but we try to give feedback to as many people as possible.
If you haven’t heard anything from us after 3 months, then it is likely that we are not able to take on your book at this time. However, there is always the chance that we just haven’t gotten to it yet.
Please don’t send reminders to us to prompt us to look at your work, if your submission is successful we will get in touch, but with our small team it isn’t possible to respond to everything and repeated emails may just get lost in the shuffle.
PERMISSIONS
We do not gather permissions for third party materials. It is the author’s responsibility to gather all necessary permission for material that falls outside the remit of ‘fair dealing’ or ‘fair use’. For information on the interpretation of fair dealing in UK law, please consult the Society of Authors website. Quotations of any length from poems, letters, lyrics and recipes, artwork and images [including photographs] maps and line drawings all require written permission. Copies of permissions granted must be submitted to us before we will consider publication.
If you are an author looking to quote something out of one of our titles for your own work, then please contact us via email, either to submissions or general enquiries providing all details of the permission you require and we will get in touch.