Dark Fire Press Submissions
At this time, Dark Fire Press is CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS
Dark Fire Press is a small, creator-owned and creator-friendly publisher of mainly books, comics, and art books, and writing collections. We also consider children's books and works of non-fiction.
FICTION:
- Books, comics, graphic novels and children's books of any length.
- The genres we are interested in are fantasy (all), horror, sword & sorcery, weird fiction, science-fiction, mystery, suspense, comedy, and humour. Also historical fiction and deep/psychologically intense fiction of any sort will be considered.
- Urban or modern fantasy works are of less interest to us, but not a hard no.
- Straight up pornography is a no (no hate, it's just not for us, sorry).
NON-FICTION:
- Art books (all genres)
- Interesting and unique topics. If you have an idea, pitch it.
- Specifically, we are looking for non-fiction work on the topics of creativity and artistic creation, the crafts of writing and artmaking, process, how-tos, and creator biographies.
- Also any academic writing on video/table top games, game creation, or analysis of specific games, game series, or game creators are very much of interest to us.
GAMING:
- We are expanding into card and table top gaming modules & rule books; if you have an idea, let us know! (Game pieces, however, are not part of our operations model at this time)
ALL:
We are always open to any literature (fiction or non-fiction) focusing on or having themes concerning mental heath and mental illness, providing they are not derogatory or negative in that regard.
DO NOT SUBMIT:
- Your art portfolio for consideration. Sorry, but we RARELY hire artists. We focus on publishing completed works and do not pair creators together. If you have a artbook you wish to submit for publication, however...(see above)
- Any work using Generative AI. Non-negotiable! It's in our contract!
- Absolutely no far-right, alt-right, comicsgate, etc, etc, et al, ad nauseum, works*.
- We are thus NOT interested in any racist or anti-LGBTQ works*.
* (Yes, you can certainly have a character or characters in your works that fit this mold, discuss topics concerning these things, etc. We do not stray away from difficult or complex topics, even ugliness in our publications, but if the overall message of your work is such and by our standards hate-filled, we will not consider you or any other works from you. Period.)
- No hardcore pornography (sorry; it's just not for us).
Contract & Terms Overview
Before submitting any work to us, please consider our terms and size of operations:
We are currently a strictly Print-on-Demand publisher. We do not sell direct to the public, but list our publications with such sites as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Global Comix, IndyPlanet and others. As such, we do work with a few distributors, but getting books on shelves in physical stores often falls on the author.
We cannot offer much in the way of promotion or advertising, but we do make up for it with competitive rates for author royalties, and in allowing our creators to keep the rights to their works. We also only contract for the rights to publish the work submitted to us, and do not retain any subsidiary, spin-off, or series rights (unless requested).
Some highlights of our contracts:
- Creator friendly & dedication to publishing your vision for your work
- Creators do not pay money to publish with us
- Creators keep their rights
- DFP's exclusive publishing rights only extend to the book (print, digital, and audio); no subsidiary or spin-off rights
- Creator paid on every book sold (no costs against their earnings
- All books must be ready to go! (DFP will layout the book for print and the cover, if need be, but all artwork and editing should be done *before* submitting.)
- Limited promotion for our books (falls mostly on the creators to promote their books)
- Distribution to online stores; availability to physical stores & libraries (falls on creator to mostly get into physical stores)
- Absolutely NO generative AI!
E-mail submissions to: [CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS]
If you would like to contact Dark Fire Press about any topic other than submissions, please visit the About Page.
