Bitten Fruit Books is Open to Queries
Submission Guidelines Updated 13th March, 2026 Thank you for your interest in Bitten Fruit Books. If and when working with authors, our goal is to give a voice to unusual, less mainstream work within genre fiction, especially for first-time UK authors . We want to help you get off the ground. We are a micro-publisher based in the United Kingdom – we are small, niche, and a family-run business and we don't pretend to be anything other than that. We only work with one author at a time to give you our best, which can mean only publishing, say, two new authors a year. What We're Looking For We are looking for genre fiction which is fast-paced, passionate, creative, intelligent, and somehow different to the norm. We publish new authors under Bitten Fruit Books (contemporary romance, women's fiction, contemporary thrillers) and our brand new about-to-launch imprint, Between Fire & Ice (dark fantasy, paranormal romance, gothic fiction, horror, supernatural thrillers). We get...