If you are interested in publishing with Nightmare Press, make sure you have looked over the genres we accept and your work fits.

Please follow the guidelines. Not doing so will result in automatic rejection.

Send your submissions to nightmarepress@yahoo.com. In the subject line of the email, include your name, title of the work, genre, and word count.

1) In the body of the email, write a brief description of the work. One we could use as the description on the back cover if we were to accept. That is all we need for the first submission.

2) If we like the description, we will request a longer synopsis which tells us the beginning, middle, and end. If this is a short story collection, tell us briefly the synopses of each individual tale.

3) If we like the longer synopsis, we will request the first and last three chapters.

4) If we like what we read, we will request the entire manuscript.

Do not paste any of the manuscript to the body of the email. We won’t even look at the submission if you do.

Do not send the short stories separately. Send them in one manuscript. If they are separate, we will reject automatically.

We don’t care if you submit to other presses simultaneously. Just let us know if the work gets accepted elsewhere, as a professional courtesy.

DECISION TIMEFRAME

Due to the high volume of submissions and work, we have a quarterly window for submission reviews. They are as follows:

FIRST QUARTER (January 1st to March 31st): Submissions sent within this window will have final decisions made by the end of the second quarter.

SECOND QUARTER (April 1st to June 30th): Submissions sent within this window will have final decisions made by the end of the third quarter.

THIRD QUARTER (July 1st to September 30th): Submissions sent within this window will have final decisions made by the end of the fourth quarter.

FOURTH QUARTER (October 1st to December 31st): Submissions sent within this window will have final decisions made by the end of the first quarter of the following year.

*NOTE: Nightmare Press receives many submissions and has a continuous line of books awaiting publication, and that line can get lengthy. The amount of time from acceptance to publication can take quite a while. We want to make authors aware of this prior to submission.

Nightmare Press is an all-inclusive publishing house. We not only welcome diversity, we seek it out as well. We are open to all races, all genders, all identities, all sexual orientations, the disabled, and the mentally ill, and we like stories that represent diversity too.