Pyschopomp.com

Psychopomp.com is a Vermont-based US small press led by publisher Sean Markey and multi-award-nominated editor E. Catherine Tobler that publishes novels, novellas and a short fiction magazine called The Deadlands, writes

Gary Dalkin. At the time of writing (early April) the press was planning to open to unsolicited novel submissions

‘soon’, but could not give a specific date. For updates check the guidelines page at: https://thedeadlands.moksha.io/publication/psychopomp/guidelines and https://psychopomp.com/novel-guidelines/

The editorial team will be looking for literary or speculative fiction novels (and short stories for the magazine – though check the guidelines at: https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/ as who can submit varies month by month) that involve at least one of the following elements: grief or loss, the afterlife or underworld, a journey through death, death personified, time travel, a multiverse, stories where characters lose their sense of reality, Gothic stories, stories within stories, amazingly original ghost stories, creepy meta-horror, space (so long as it’s goth).

No: conventional horror tropes (zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc.), gory horror, stories heavy on humour, stereotypical Christian afterlife stories, sword and sorcery, elves, mermaids, selkies, hard or military science fiction.

No multiple submissions or simultaneous submissions, reprints or previously published titles, even self-published. No AI generated content. If your book ‘wasn’t written 100% by a human person’ then ‘save everyone the trouble’. Psychopomp will only ever publish works written by humans.

Payment is an advance (currently $750 for novellas, higher for novels), and 25% of net receipts. The link to submissions will go live on the guidelines pages once subs are open.