Darkerwood Publishing Group/DB Publishing Submission Guidelines

Darkerwood Publishing Group LLC
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submission email: darkerwoodpublishing@gmail.com

We are not currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts for Darkerwood Publishing Group LLC or any of its imprints.

Agented submissions only unless we directly invite you to submit.

Please only submit packages for completed books, because if we like your initial submission package, we’ll want to see the full MS right away. If the full MS is not ready, we will reject your submission package. The submission package should include:

• Standard Query Letter including author credentials, publication credits, length of completed manuscript and a
  description of the work being submitted.
• Full Synopsis with every chapter outlined. No more than five pages, please.
• The first chapter of the book so we can get a feel for the author’s writing style.
  IF we are interested, THEN we will ask to see a completed manuscript. Please allow up to four months for a
  response. Thank you.

DB Publishing

Publishes non-fiction esoteric books about Traditional Daemonolatry, Traditional Craft, Crooked Path, and Folk Magick especially if it involves Daemonic forces or baneful magick.

Official Melissa

Fine edition occult books by established Daemonolatry authors

Midnight Fantasy Press:

Dark Fantasy Romance (includes most supernatural and paranormal) and Dark Contemporary Romance with a thrilling plots and steamy situations along the way.

Darkerwood Publishing Group LLC:

Fiction: We publish the following genres with specific requirements (a minimum of 50K words):

• Horror: Splatter punk, gore, body horror, serial killers, supernatural, paranormal.
• Cozy Mystery: Witchy cozy mysteries with witches who aren’t the stereotypical “good witch.” Whether it’s cute and light or serious and darker, we’re open to it.
• Urban Fantasy: We like stories about characters thrust into really weird and unconventional situations. Occult or esoteric overtones a plus. Especially witches and Daemons.
• Romance: We definitely enjoy romance of all heat levels involving witches, wizards, and Daemons. Steamier submissions would likely be put under Midnight Fantasy Press.
• Short Stories or Short Story Collections: We are not publishing short fiction or short fiction collections at this time.

Non-Fiction – 30k-100k MS considered.

• Spirituality– Books that are more spiritual than religious and have a unique, unorthodox take.
• Divination or Mediumship – Books about any form of divination or mediumship. Currently looking for books on pyromancy, aeromancy, automancy, ceraunoscopy or keraunomancy, augury, ailuromancy, arachnomancy or entomancy, apantomancy, chiromancy,capnomancy, ceromancy, and cyromancy. If it’s obscure and outside the mainstream, we’re interested.
• Creative Self-Help– Books that delve into the human psyche and discuss how magick and/or creativity can be used to help people grow and learn about themselves. Authors should have solid credentials.
• Memoirs or Biographies of lifelong occult or esoteric practitioners regardless your path or labels. No Christian-based scare books that paint the esoteric life in a negative way unless there’s an interesting twist. Authors of autobiographies or memoirs – please be over 50 and have at least 25 years of practice under your belt unless you have a VERY interesting story to tell.