How to Get Published

A) Purple Unicorn Media

For art, travel, light and philosophical fantasy, poetry, romance and literature.

Email: info@purpleunicornmedia.com

B) Scimitar Edge

For alternate history, science fiction, steampunk, cyberpunk, historical fiction, epic and heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, history, biography & genealogy.

Email: editor@scimitaredge.com

C) Dancing Unicorn

For children's books, including picture books, and fiction for children up to young teens.

Email: publish@dancingunicorn.co.uk

A) Subject

Please make the title of your email obvious as to what it is about.

B) Content

Information on your submission should include the following:

- Its title, or ideas of a title if uncertain - Author name (whether your real name or a pen name) - The genre of the submission, both wide (e.g. science fiction) and as specific as possible (e.g. time travel romance) - The length in word count. Feel free to also give it in chapters etc - Synopsis: this really only needs to be a couple of pages - Similarities to other authors etc, not because we want you to claim to be "the new X" but because it helps with understanding the book's positioning, and in who we choose to read the submission - Ideas for a cover; whilst PUM and its imprints reserve the absolute final say over what is used as a cover, we are happy to work with authors who already have ideas as to what they would like to see. We are very open to receiving such additional enclosures, but please specify any known copyright issues with the image, and where you got it from.

A) Bio

Readers expect to see some biographical account of the author, either on the back cover or at the end of the book, and this can be purely professional, leaving any personal information to your discretion. This can be focused on professional work only, or on writing only, or on interests only, or can be a full personal statement. What we are looking for is something we can promote and which works well with the advertising. We don't need to know what you don't want to tell us. But what you tell us needs to work for both parties.

B) Links

Whilst we do not require authors to have social media links or an online presence, we do require to know about any you do have, that go by the same name as your book will go out in. These include:

- Website or blog: if you have a web presence, we want to visit it, and get a feel for how you already present yourself, and how readers may already see you. - Social media links: these are very useful in marketing and promotion. Conversely, if you have blended your professional work with personal rants and conspiracy theories, it will be useful for us to know that this might be a problem!

We would hope that any such presence an author has would be at your disposal to use to promote your book once it is published.

C) Publications

We neither require an author to have a list of previously published work, nor do we need to read any that you do have. But we wish to be made aware of what you have published, using the same author name, and where. If you wish to let us know about additional publications under other pen names, that is at your discretion.

A) Acknowledgment

We will acknowledge your submission and give an indication of initial timescale for review. This will depend on factors such as if the submission is being sent out to associates who may be better placed in the relevant genre, or if it is joining a queue to review.

B) Initial Reply

After our initial review, we will either reject your submission — humbly and with an explanation if one is relevant — or we will offer to progress it to a formal review.

C) Formal Review

The formal review process has two main strands:

1) We work with you the author to make sure we both want the same thing out of any publication.

2) We look to see how we would position and market the book, and if it meets the needs of our stable.

D) Offer or Rejection

If we wish to publish your work and the formal review has gone well for both parties, we will then make an offer of publication. Otherwise, we will give you a formal rejection.