Submit your Manuscript
Amsterdam Publishers receives far more manuscripts than can be published, but every submission that meets the requirements below is carefully considered.
- Publication schedule. Our publication schedule for 2027 is now completely full. The current lead time for accepted manuscripts is approximately 15 months, meaning that new titles would be scheduled for publication in 2028.
- A complete manuscript. Send the entire, clean file – no sample chapters, an outline, or a work in progress.
- A Word document. A .doc or .docx file — not a PDF.
- Clean and carefully edited. Please send your best work — readable and largely free of errors. Every book I accept will be professionally edited again, and I cannot consider a rough or unedited draft.
- A memoir or biography. Novels, works of poetry and historical fiction are no longer accepted.
- English-language manuscripts only. A foreign-language edition is never the starting point.
- At least 60,000 words. Shorter works cannot be considered.
- A book blurb and an author bio.
- An original work. Preferably in US spelling, with minimal formatting such as page breaks and chapter breaks.
- Agented or direct. Both agented manuscripts and direct submissions are welcome.
- A hybrid publishing fee applies. I charge a one-time fee but return a larger share of the royalties to the author than most publishers do. Only a small number of submissions are selected.
- If your file is too large to upload. For example, because it contains many images — please email me directly.I currently do not respond to requests from foreign publishers who want to sell translation or publication rights.