Hope Pages Press does not currently require an agent to make a submission. We are currently open for submissions. Please visit our submissions page for more information on how to submit your work for consideration.
At this time Hope Pages Press cannot accept simultaneous submissions.
We know it can be hard to wait, but please know that we are taking the time to make sure your work receives the attention and consideration it deserves from our team.
Please allow for up to eight(8) weeks to receive a response. If you haven’t received a response in regards to your submission after eight weeks, please email editor-in-chief Michael Arendt at michael@hopepagespress.com to follow up.
We at Hope Pages Press understand that being a part of the LGBTQ+, BIPOC, or other marginalized community can come with a lot of angst and anxiety. However, we are striving to give these communities hope, so overly dark, violent, and/or angsty stories are not what we are looking for. This is understandably subjective, but please be aware that this is something we consider when evaluating stories for publication. Please be sure to include any kind of content warnings, including but not limited to non-consensual encounters/assault, bashing, violence, drug use, and explicit sexual content.
You should include a one or two page marketing plan and statement explaining who your book is targeted to and how you plan to help advertise for your finished product. You should have a sense for what kind of person would be interested in your reader, please be as detailed as possible in your description and plans. Hope Pages Press will do everything we can do to help promote the finished product, but as the creator, we hold the expectation that you will help get your work out there as well. [Marketing plans are not necessary for Anthology submissions, but active social media accounts are, and helping market the anthologies is required.]
We are not currently limiting submissions based on genre. Hope Pages Press is committed to giving voice to and uplift marginalized communities, and we don’t want to limit that expression by genre. For Alphabet of Hope, stories should be autobiographical, have a hopeful theme, and be central to the LGBTQ+ community. For our fiction anthology, stories should be fictional, have a hopeful theme, and feature characters from a normally marginalized community.
We absolutely would! We only ask that if your work is meant to be part of a greater series of works, please let us know when you submit the first manuscript. It will help us to get a better idea of how to best market your books.
General word count for a novel should be between 40,000 words and 90,000 words. Exceptions can be made and shorter or longer works will be considered, but this general range is what we have found works best. If your story is deemed too short, we may ask you to expand it, or alternatively, offer it solely as an ebook option. If you are submitting for one of our anthologies, we’re flexible with word count but please try to keep it around or under 5,000 words for Alphabet of Hope, 10,000 words for a fiction anthology.
If we go forward with publishing, you as the author will maintain the copyright on your story. You will be granting Hope Pages Press exclusive First World English Rights and/or First World English Electronic Rights.