We will be open to fiction submissions
from February 15 to March 5, 2010.

Wanted: Mid-list authors

  We need to place our resources behind authors who know how to promote their books. You don't necessarily need a national platform, a regional one will do. If you have demonstrated annual sales of 5k to 15k books, please consider placing your next novel or non-fiction book with Twilight Times Books or Paladin Timeless Books.

Rest assured we will always keep a few slots open each year for exceptional books written by first time authors.

  Twilight Times Books will present the works of those writers whose stories blend genres, are too literary for other publishers or seem too mainstream or "quirky" in tone. The requirement for consideration at Twilight Times Books is your novel must be entertaining; your non-fiction book must be informative. Both fiction and non-fiction book submissions must be professionally written and you must have a comprehensive marketing plan.

Purchase a book or read the stories in Twilight Times ezine to determine the type of writing we're interested in seeing.

First consideration will be given to authors previously published by Twilight Times Books, Paladin Timeless Books, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine (FMAM), Twilight Times ezine and/or Web Mystery Magazine. Our current response time is four weeks to two months. Simultaneous submissions are frowned upon. We offer a standard publishing contract.

Futures Mystery Anthology

August 15 - October 31, 2009 -- Open to mystery short stories for the Futures Mystery Anthology.

Current plans are for publication of an anthology in trade paperback in 2010 and then publication of an annual anthology thereafter. The anthology may contain a few stories previously published in FMAM as well as new short stories and novellas. Prefer stories 5k - 15k in length. We will open to submissions for the anthology August 15, 2009. Pays a flat rate based on word count (to be determined). If sales go over 2000 copies, then royalties will be paid in addition to the initial payment.

Query letters will need to be addressed to the editorial staff since Twilight Times Books will be publishing the anthology.
 

When we re-open to novel-length submissions on Feb. 15, 2010, we will be especially interested in the following categories:
fantasy, historical, literary, mystery/suspense, paranormal romance, science fiction and SF romance.

We have expanded our guidelines to include more nonfiction titles in 2009-2010 and are also interested in:
creative nonfiction, how-to books, humor/satire, juvenile, magic realism, mainstream/contemporary, military/war-related, nostalgia-related fiction and non-fiction, paranormal, Regency romance, regional, specialty/New Age, supernatural, the Sixties-related (fiction or nonfiction), World War II-related, women's fiction, writing advice, etc.

Send a cover letter, synopsis, first chapter and marketing plan in the body of an email message to the publisher

Your email message MUST begin the subject line with ttbooks or ttb or your message will be deleted.

No attachments, please.

Please note our formatting requirements.

We are generally open to submissions twice each year from Feb. 15th to March 5th and again from July 15th to August 5th.

Note to authors: If you send an email query outside the open submissions period, I can be very slow to respond. If you send a query letter during the open submissions period, I do try to respond within three or four weeks. If you do everything right, but forget to insert ttb at the beginning of the subject line, your email query may well be misfiled by my email filters and it could be some time before I come across it.