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Effective 10-2010:
Silverthought Press is now accepting manuscript submissions to our Offense Mechanisms imprint for our 2011-2012 publishing queue.
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The OFFENSE MECHANISMS imprint of Silverthought Press seeks submissions of quality work in the genre of transgressive fiction. The focus of this imprint will be the publication of novels, but we will consider novellas and short story collections on a case-by-case basis. Offense Mechanisms will publish 1-4 books/year, but we have a rolling submissions policy. If you would like to submit your full manuscript or a representative sample of the work to Offense Mechanisms, please send a query through the Silverthought submission manager. Due to rampant spam and disregard for our submission guidelines, we have discontinued the queries@silverthought.com email address and will no longer monitor that account. In addition, we will no longer accept printed manuscript submissions. All unsolicited submissions must be uploaded through our online submission manager.
PLEASE NOTE: PROOFREAD YOUR SUBMISSIONS. Read your manuscript in its entirety at least once before submitting it. Use a spell checker. Read dialogue out loud. Change the font to Arial 72 and read it again. You'll find things you don't like. If you don't like them, we won't either. If you require professional editing services, please contact us for a quote.
This imprint's focus is transgressive fiction. Given the subjective definition of transgression, all manuscripts will be evaluated for appropriateness for Offense Mechanisms. Speculative fiction submissions (sci-fi, fantasy, horror) will be forwarded to Silverthought Press.
Any updates to the status of our manuscript acceptance policy will be posted on this page, and information contained on this page supercedes any and all submission guidelines listed on third-party publisher directories and submission guideline aggregators.
After submitting your manuscript, please allow 6-12 months for an evaluation of your work. Response time is generally much shorter, but unforeseen circumstances, slushpile backlog, or consultation among the editorial staff may necessitate a longer evaluation. All submissions are held in the strictest confidence by the Silverthought staff. We read each query and manuscript, but due to the number of submissions, we do not send personalized responses to writers whose manuscripts do not currently meet our needs. If you do not receive a reply to your query after 12 months, please consider your manuscript rejected. Emails requesting updates on the status of a submission will be ignored. Sorry to be a bastard about this, but the slushpile is a deep and unforgiving abyss.
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