Submitting to Kilfinan Press
At Kilfinan Press, we are committed to performing the traditional role of the publisher, and doing that as well as we can. We are not a self-publishing company, vanity publisher, nor a hybrid. We work hard to edit, market and produce books, while covering all costs.
Although we almost always commission books directly, we do accept a few unsolicited submissions (and it really is very few). We can’t promise to read every submission, and at busy times we can’t even promise to reply to every submission, much as we would dearly like to. This is because we are a small team, and there are simply not enough hours in the day. Please be patient, and forgive us if our answer has to be no.
One thing that does help to start a conversation is to write a review, or tell us about one of ours you’ve read. We also accept relevant and high quality submissions to our blog, perhaps a creative review of something we have published, linking their own work with ours. Think of it as a literary icebreaker.
If you’d like to submit an article to our blog, please contact us.
We also place great value on real, interpersonal connection, so if there is someone that we know, or know of, who would recommend your work to us, that would be a great way of making an introduction.
Other than that, here is some advice that we have shamelessly culled from another publisher’s website. Imitation is the best form of flattery, after all. So, there’s something on how to write fiction here, advice on how to get published here and again here.
