Bookouture Submissions

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WINNER – British Book Awards/Imprint of the Year, 2025

75 million copies sold worldwide

Bookouture is a full-service publisher. They are also digital-first. They win a lot of awards and make a lot of sales. They’re kinda owned by Hachette, and then again they’re kinda not. They do accept unsolicited submissions.

Bookouture Submissions

Great news. Looks like they’re open for submissions.

Bookouture is looking for full-length, commercial fiction and some text-led non-fiction, but no children’s books, film scripts, poetry or short stories. No agent required.

Please send complete ms.

bookouture.com/submission-guidelines

bookouture.com/submit-your-manuscript

They are looking for:

– Entertaining Fiction
– Crime & Thriller
– Psychological Thriller
– Domestic Suspense
– Police Procedural
– Women’s Fiction
– Contemporary Romance
– Romantic Comedy
– Reading Group
– Cozy Crime
– Historical Fiction
– Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bookouture submissions are always open.

Bookouture 2025 titles

– The Chinaman Spice Inn by Harper Graham
– The Open Marriage by Victoria Jenkins
– The Fast Lane by Sharon Peterson
– Uninvited by Emily Shriner
– Maple Falls by Harper Graham

2026 titles

– Tag, You’re It by Kerry Wilkinson
– Sarah Vane Mysteries by Alice Castle
– Why the World Does it Better by John Kampfner

Acquisitions

All the Ways You Break Me by Melissa Wiesner (Fiction) – Ten years after fleeing Sandy Harbor Island, Josie’s hometown is the last place she wants to be. But she’s maid of honor for her sister Madeline and determined to give her the beachside wedding of her dreams.

Lost Daughters by Soraya Lane (Fiction) – Desperate for answers, Lily accepts a job on an Italian vineyard in the heart of picturesque Como – a dream her father once shared.

Maple Falls by Harper Graham (Fiction) – Set in a small town in Vermont, with a quirky cast of characters and a spicy romance at the heart during Christmastime.

Miss Underhay and the Secret Detective Agency by Helen Dixon (Fiction) – London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon.

Bookouture in the news…

Bookouture Signs Maeve Haran to 3-Book Deal

Bookouture has acquired three cozy crime novels from bestselling women’s fiction author Maeve Haran, whose novel Having It All was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller and has been translated into 26 languages. Commissioning Editor Lizzie Brien acquired World All Language rights including audio, film and TV directly from the author.

In this new series, Maeve’s first foray into cozy crime, a group of brilliant, independent women come together to solve murders from their unusual homes: vintage campervans.

See if your book fits in with these Bookouture titles.

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