olive ridley - (n) a small species of sea turtle.
Thank you for your interest in Olive Ridley Press! We are an imprint of Manta Press, Ltd. focused on bringing engaging literature to young adults worldwide. (See the Manta Press Submissions page for the submission of adult works.)
If you're an author seeking a home for your work, we would love to read what you've written. However, we do have a couple of guidelines that will help us give your submission the attention it deserves.
To start, we are looking to publish original and previously unpublished works in the following genres:
Dystopian - Fantasy - Science Fiction
Horror - Mystery - Suspense - Thriller
Additionally, we are looking for fully polished manuscripts. While we have our manuscripts copy edited prior to publication, we do not perform nor fund structural or developmental editing.
A quick word about marketing and promotion...
We mostly utilize reviewers and social media to promote our business, authors, and their books, and look to our authors to participate in helping to get the word out. We look at the publishing of an author's book as a partnership, and that includes the marketing and promotion of your book.
Now that you know what we're looking for, if you believe your work would be a good fit for Olive Ridley, (and more importantly, Olive Ridley to be a good fit for you and your work), please send your double-spaced manuscript with an industry standard 12 pt font as a .doc or .docx file to...
Please include the title, genre, and word count of your manuscript in the subject line and allow 4 - 6 weeks for a response. And no, we're not one of those publishers. We will inform you of our decision one way or another. If by chance you haven't heard back regarding your submission within 6 weeks, please reach out and give us a nudge.