Crooked Lane Books

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Crooked Lane Books is a publisher specializing in crime fiction novels and occasional short story collections, accepting both agented and unagented submissions.

Response time info: We will contact you within two weeks if we are interested in reading further.

Read the full guidelines at crookedlanebooks.com↗

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Seeking novels (60,000–100,000 words) and occasional short story collections in crime fiction and related genres; does not accept individual short stories, novellas, essay collections, or previously published novels; prefers series where earlier books were not self-published unless significant sales

nonfiction

Accepts submissions of nonfiction in the form of true crime books.

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