They specialize in publishing respected non-fiction and literary fiction. They filed for bankruptcy a number of years ago. Harbour Publishing purchased Douglas & McIntyre at that point. Learn more here.ĭouglas & McIntyre is one of Canada’s pre-eminent independent publishers, with books that have won many national and international awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. They also have imprints covering almost any nonfiction topic you can think of, including children’s nonfiction, parenting, vehicles and architecture. They publish a lot of cookbooks and gift books. All of their US imprints are distributed by Hachette. They publish most of their work through a number of niche imprints each with their own focus. The Quarto Publishing Group is an international publishing house known for its illustrated books. They are only currently open to unsolicited submissions of nonfiction accessible to most readers. They publish fiction, purely academic books, and general nonfiction. Over the decades they have focused on publishing a diverse range of books in the areas of alternative medicine, ecology, and spirituality. They started out rather small and independent but now they are much larger and have excellent distribution through Penguin/Random House. They have been publishing books since the 70s. North Atlantic Books is a publisher located in California.
They publish a range of nonfiction, focusing on practical things such as food (one of the bestsellers they have published is the Forks over Knives Cookbook), health and fitness, psychology and personal development, parenting, relationships, sexuality, and nature. Since 2011 they have been an imprint of Workman Publishing. The Experiment was an independent publisher launched in 2008. They are open to some other categories as well looking through their web catalog is the best way to get a feel for what kinds of books they publish. Their company’s core publication categories are: cookbooks, comics & humor, and puzzles & games. They are one of the largest publishers that will read proposals by authors that have not been previously published and do not have an agent.Īndrews McMeel Publishing is a leading publisher of general non-fiction trade books, gift books and humor books. Most are currently open to submissions, but not all of them are.Īndrews McMeel is a large publishing house that publishes up to 300 books a year. The details involved in what they expect in the proposal is generally included in our review of the publisher, or on the publishers website. Most publishers of non-fiction require an outline of an incomplete manuscript. No agent required.Īlmost all of these publishers open to proposals, which means that you do not need a completed manuscript in order to approach them.
All of them are open to unsolicited submissions directly from authors. Most focus in on one or two aspect of non-fiction, such as history books, memoir, or cookbooks. The following publishers all focus on publishing non-fiction books.
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