Congratulations on finishing your novel! Stalking Horse Press welcomes novel submissions, both unsolicited and agent represented, and we aim to respond within 30 days. We are only interested in complete manuscripts. We are not anti-genre, but we are anti-generic. Stalking Horse is not for seven-part fantasy epics, nor airport bookstore thrillers, and words ‘series’ or ‘sequel’ should probably not appear in your cover letter. We read for prose style, experimental tendencies, novels that think, lines that ignite, and writers not storytellers. If your work is spiky, angular, errant, unconcerned with bourgeois tendencies and novels of manners, then Stalking Horse might be the press for you. Please note that we only publish writers who are prepared to designate a charitable, nonprofit, or humanitarian organization to receive a percentage of proceeds from their work (this does not affect author royalty), and you should feel free to suggest the kind of organization you are interested in helping within your cover letter. Yes, we charge a nominal reading fee of $3. If you don’t think your work is worth $3 of virtual postage, please do not send it. Otherwise, we look forward to hearing from you.
