What We Are Looking For

What we are looking for…

We at Accomplice Press are striving for excellence. With that said we have certain evaluation criteria we wanted to be sure you had a heads up on. Accomplice Press is looking for: Excellence in writing, originality, plotting, voice, setting, character and dialogue.

Please take a look at our genres and sub-genres page to see what we are looking for in that specific genre. If you don’t see something that fits your book, but you still think we would be interested in your book, contact us.

We appreciate writers who push boundaries and use their voice in unique ways.

WORD COUNT LIMITATIONS:

E-book & Print: 40,000-80,000

E-book ONLY: 15,000-35,000

For more information on word count and our publishing types please see How We Publish.

Clarification on what we will accept in terms of violence:

Dark, gritty, these are ok. But there is a line that passes over edgy into unacceptable, we need to define this line a bit more.

We will NOT accept ANYTHING that shows Violence, Rape, Murder, Incest, Drug Dealing, Drug Abuse etc…IN A POSITIVE LIGHT!!!!

We understand that all of these things are sometimes important in stories, especially crime/thriller/mystery novels. However, in such cases, they should not be glorified, or be shown to be a good thing or something that a person could or should get away with.

In the end, the person who commits the crime should come to justice in some legal form (this does not mean an abused victim who commits cold-blooded murder and gets away with it–in this case the victim would also be a murderer and need to be brought to justice as well). Though we do accept when the murderer is killed in self-defense.

We know this can be a fine line. We do not expect every story to be a happy fairy tale or have a happy fairy tale ending…but we do not advocate violence as a positive thing to do and can not in good conscience publish anything that does!

Examples of what is and is not acceptable:

ACCEPTABLE (and even just the type of thing we are looking for): A gritty thriller about a hard-boiled detective who breaks a few rules in his pursuit of a serial killer. Through out the novel we see glimpses into the killers mind, we see from his point of view as to why he kills and why in his mind this is acceptable. In the end the killer is killed by a tough victim while she is trying to get away. (Or maybe by the tough detective in self-defense).

NOT ACCEPTABLE –A novel about a vigilante who has become disgusted with the world and has decided to start ridding the world of those he considers “scum” or “guilty”. We follow him through out the book as he describes how he murders and tortures criminals. In the end he is never caught, be beats the police looking for him at every turn. He is the hero of the story.

If you have any questions about this or believe you have what should be an exception to our rule, contact us and we will discuss it with you.