Regal House Publishing: Market Spotlight
For this week’s market spotlight, we look at Regal House Publishing, an independent literary press.
For this week’s market spotlight, we look at Regal House Publishing, an independent literary press.
Regal House Publishing: Market Spotlight
Regal House Publishing was founded in 2014 by Jaynie Royal as a result of her experiences trying to get her book published as an author.
Royal says, "I founded Regal House determined to do things differently. I wanted to establish a publishing house that served as a true partner to the writers under its roof, one that sought to empower and support its authors."
What They're Looking For: Regal House Publishing looks for literary fiction, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and memoirs. They also offer a poetry award for new and established poets.
The editors say, "We are governed by our imperative to support and sustain the literary efforts of the authors we work with. With this in mind we take on a limited number of new clients a year, and are always interested in discovering new talent within the genres of literary fiction, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, poetry collections, and short story collections."
Regal House Publishing has two imprints: Fitzroy Books, which publishes middle grade, young adult, and children's fiction; and Pact Press, which publishes full-length fiction, memoirs, essay collections, anthologies, and creative nonfiction related to social justice, race, discrimination, immigration, justice, poverty, LGBTQ concerns, and more.
How to Submit: Prospective authors should query with a one-page synopsis and the first three chapters (or 50 pages, whichever is more) of their novel via their Submittable 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.
