Uproar Books: Market Spotlight
For this week’s market spotlight, we look at Uproar Books, a science fiction and fantasy publisher based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Uproar Books is a Nashville-based publisher specializing in science fiction and fantasy novels. The company began accepting submissions in late 2018 and published its first title in May 2019. So it's a newer press.
The editors say, "Uproar Books looks for science fiction and fantasy novels with realistic characters in highly imaginative worlds. We want to see genuine emotion and meaningful struggles. And maybe a dragon or spaceship, too. But mostly the genuine and meaningful stuff."
They pay authors 10% of retail price on hardcover and paperback novels and 50% of all revenues received for the sale of ebooks.
What They're Looking For
Uproar Books is looking for space opera, dystopian, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, epic fantasy, historical and alt history fantasy, hidden realms/portal, and sword & sorcery.
The editors add, "Uproar Books also insists that all novels be the first book in a planned series of at least three. It's not that we don't love standalone novels; it's just the economics of being a small, independent publisher make it necessary for all of our books to lead to sequels."
They also accept YA if it has crossover appeal to adult audiences. However, they do not accept urban fantasy, superheroes, or "any book where more than 50% of the action takes place on modern-day Earth (unless it's in a hidden realm like with that orphaned young wizard everyone is so fond of)."
Manuscripts should be complete and run at least 70,000 words.
How to Submit
Potential authors can email the first three chapters, a synopsis, and author bio to publisher Rick Lewis at this email address.
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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.
