Bookouture: Market Spotlight
For this market spotlight, we look at Bookouture, a digital publisher of bestselling books.
Bookouture is a digital publisher that focuses on producing bestselling digital novels in a variety of genres. Based in London, Bookouture publishes authors from around the world.
"We focus on quality over quantity," say the editors. "We publish a small number of very talented authors so that we can focus on the detail and create brilliant books that sell. We aim to add value every step of the way."
Bookouture offers authors a 45% royalty on net receipts.
What They're Looking For
Bookouture is looking for entertaining fiction with a distinctive voice and a reader promise. As far as genres, they're most interested in crime and thriller; psychological thriller; domestic suspense; police procedural; women's fiction; contemporary romance; romantic comedy; reading group; multicultural; cozy crime; historical fiction; chick lit; and even some nonfiction.
The editors say, "We aim to publish stories and authors that reflect the world we live in, and to break down barriers between publishers, writers and readers. We welcome submissions from everyone—agented or otherwise—regardless of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality or socio-economic background."
How to Submit
Potential authors can submit their work online on Bookouture's submission page.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
