Spencer Hill Press

Here at Spencer Hill Press we’re keeping warm, working hard and getting ready to release Touch of Death! Have you read Touch of Death yet? Kelly Hashway’s book drops January 15. You know you want one!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13326795-touch-of-death

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This Saturday we open to unagented submissions—which means that all your well-polished novels have a chance to be read and find a home with SHP.

Spencer Hill Press is an independent publishing house specializing in sci-fi, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance for young adult readers. Our books have that “I couldn’t put it down!” quality. If your book is young adult and features anything that’s abnormal —a dystopian world, special abilities, ghosts, goblins, space— we will consider it .

While we are considering all manuscripts, this is a short list of projects some of our editors would *love* to see. So, if you’ve got something you feel fits what we’re looking for, you can direct your project to a specific editor, either in the query or the subject. 

• A book with unique magic - complex from Game of Thrones to fun and unique like Once Upon a Time.
• Something with ambiguous characters who walk the line between good & evil.
• Story with a badass villainess; complex like Morgan/Morgana in Starz’ Camelot or BBC’s Merlin
• A love story where the couple is already together
• A Hook-like character from Once Upon a Time. (Not necessarily a pirate, but guyliner and magic and ambiguity.)
• A fairytale with a twist (like a steampunk fairytale or a unique take on something we already know)
• A well-built Sci-Fi world (like Across the Universe)
• A novel where the main love interest is the villain
• Something with ninjas! 
• A story with a hot Cajun boy
• A book told from a male point of view (single point of view for the entire novel)
• Where the main character or the perspective used is something out of the usual (i.e. consider The Book Thief and how Death tells the story
• Multicultural that’s more than just a token race/issue book—would die for a complex heroine with Cherokee background, in particular.

• Midgrade contemporary fantasy: particularly faery tale, folk tale, or faery related
• Any age level: superhero stories! Like, comics in novel form
• Midgrade horror, like Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark, or dark, creepy fantasy with monsters
• Anything that’s bordering on (or definitely set in) the horror realms, really, any age category
• Stories with important equine characters (yes, this is weirdly specific, but good horses, unicorns, kelpie, pegasi, etc. will always have my attention. ESPECIALLY unicorns. 

Let us know if you any questions—but please do not query us or pitch in the comments!!

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Jennifer L. Armentrout signing books at BEA 2012 in NYC.

September 3- TAKEN Name- Seeing Night Reviews/URL- http://seeingnight.blogspot.com Name- Live To Read/URL-  http://livetoread-krystal.blogspot.com/

September 5- TAKEN Name- Fall into Books/URL- http://falln2books.blogspot.com/

September 12- TAKEN Name- LovLivLife/URL- http://www.lovlivlifereviews.com/

September 21- TAKEN Name- Rants~N~Scribbles/URL- http://rantsnscribbles.blogspot.com/

September 28- TAKEN Name- Novels on the Run/ URL- www.novelsontherun.blogspot.com

October 1- TAKEN Name- Lovey Dovey Books/URL- http://www.loveydoveybooks.blogspot.com

October 3- TAKEN Name- Kaidan’s Seduction/URL- http://kaidansseduction.blogspot.com/ 

October 5- TAKEN Name-Obsession with Books/URL- www.obsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com

October 8- TAKEN Name- Reading Angel/ URL- www.readingangel.com Name- Emily’s Crammed Bookshelf/URL- http://emilyscrammedbookshelf.blogspot.com/  Name- A Bookish Libraria/URL- http://abookishlibraria.blogspot.com

October 10- TAKEN Name- DJ Librarian Dishes/ URL- http://djlibrariandishes.blogspot.com/ Name- Book Reader Addicts/URL-  http://bookreaderaddictsgiveaways.blogspot.com/

October 11- TAKEN Name- Booking It With Hayley/ URL- http://bookingitwithhayleyg.blogspot.com/

October 12- TAKEN Name- Stuck in YA/URL- http://lovesbooksreviews.blogspot.com

October 15- TAKEN Name- Words at Home/URL- http://www.wordsathome.ca/ Name- Hooked to Books / URL-
http://www.hookedtobooks.com

October 17-TAKEN Name - Letters Inside Out/ URL - http://www.lettersinsideout.net Name- Books Complete Me/URL- www.bookscompleteme.com

October 19- TAKEN Name- Reading Lark/ URL- readinglark.blogspot.com Name- Moonlight Gleam’s Bookshelf/URL  - http://www.moonlightgleam.com

October 20- TAKEN Name- Book Whisperer/URL- www.book-whisperer.blogspot.com

October 22- TAKEN Name- The Rest Is Still Unwritten/URL- http://rachybee-the-rest-is-still-unwritten.blogspot.com.au/

October 24- TAKEN Name- Always YA at Heart/URL- http://www.alwaysyaatheart.blogspot.com

October 26- TAKEN Name- Shiirleyy’s Bookshelf/URL- http://shiirleyysbookshelf.blogspot.com/

October 29- TAKEN Name- Book Passion/URL- http://bookpassionforlife.blogspot.com/

November 1- TAKEN Name- Leisure Reads / http://www.leisurereads.com/

***If your blog would like to join the tour, please contact Kendra ( ksaunders@spencerhillpress.com )

Spencer Hill Press author Kate Kaynak will be a guest on this special live chat, Monday the 26th. For more info:

http://darkfrannysthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/03/live-chat-with-author-kate-kaynak-on.html

Make sure to check it out!