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How we choose a manuscript

We publish six books a year. We read about six hundred manuscripts to find them.

Tables piled with books in a bookshop
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Every year, we receive around six hundred manuscripts and publish six. People often ask what we look for. The honest answer is: a voice we want to hear again tomorrow.

What we read first

The first page, then a page from the middle. If both sound like the same person, and that person is someone we want to spend a few hundred pages with, we read the rest.

How long it takes

We answer every submission within three months. If we say no, we try to say why.

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Lena Hartmann

Publisher. Reads manuscripts on trains, edits them at home, and still answers every submission herself.

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