All submissions to Shadow Mountain Publishing must be represented by a literary agent. Agented queries and manuscripts may be submitted at any time.
Shadow Mountain Publishing will open to unagented and unsolicited manuscripts during the following dates ONLY:
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March 1 through March 7
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June 1 through June 7
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September 1 through September 7
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December 1 through December 7
Unagented and unsolicited queries or manuscripts submitted at any other time will be discarded without review.
To submit your manuscript, please follow these steps:
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Read our submission guidelines here.
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Because we use QueryManager.com to facilitate our submission process, please create a user name and password. This will allow for easy communication regarding your submission.
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Allow up to sixteen weeks for us to complete the review process and reply to you with our decision.
Manuscript Wish List
Shadow Mountain Publishing is passionate about clean content and empowering values. We publish general fiction and nonfiction for all ages.
We are primarily looking for the following genres, though the list may change depending on our needs.
Fiction
- empathy-building, contemporary middle grade novels
- middle grade fantasy
- historical romance (Regency, Victorian, Edwardian, etc.)
- women’s fiction
- YA fiction
- general fiction
- historical fiction
Nonfiction
- historical nonfiction
- inspirational nonfiction
- middle grade nonfiction
- cookbooks
- religious content for non-denominal audience
We are NOT interested in the following genres:
- previously self-published projects
- children’s picture books
- poetry
- science fiction
- business and finance
- family histories/personal journals
Lisa Mangum
Managing Editor
Shadow Mountain Publishing