Crooked Lane Books

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Crooked Lane Books accepts agented and unagented novel submissions, primarily in crime, mystery, thriller, suspense, and related speculative genres.

Response time info: within two weeks if interested in reading further

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fictionScience FictionHorrorMysteryRomanceYoung Adult

Accepts agented and unagented novels and occasional short story collections, but not individual short stories, novellas, essay collections, or previously published novels. Manuscripts should be 60,000–100,000 words. Submit through QueryTracker. The publisher is seeking the listed crime, mystery, thriller, suspense, horror, science fiction, speculative, romance, young adult mystery, and related subgenres.

nonfictionMystery

Accepts true crime nonfiction; essay collections are not published. Submission length limits are not stated for nonfiction.

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