If we have to place a novel or an anthology of short stories, more or less every publishing house has a space for us in its catalogue, even if some publishers do not accept collections (but it is usually small publishing houses). But a single story ? A story to publish in ebook for less than 2 euros? Is there a publishing market for loose collections, for half-hour reads? I did a long search online to find publishing houses willing to publish single stories in ebooks . Because just one story certainly cannot be published in paperback, the costs would be too high and very few are willing to pay 7 or 8 euros to read a single story, when they can have a novel or a collection of stories for the same price. The result of my research was very disappointing. I found only 3 publishing houses in Italy that publish single stories in ebook and they are all genre stories. So if you have a mainstream story, there is nothing or almost nothing for you.
Publishers who publish single stories in ebooks Here is my very short list. Delos Digital : they prefer stories from 50,000 characters onwards and have different genres: Eroticism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comics, Crime, Horror, Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Espionage, Steampunk, Historical, Thriller, Western, Zombie. Nero Press : Accepting manuscripts again Special Data starting in 2018. They publish stories in ebooks between 60,000 and 200,000 characters. The genres are: Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Noir, Horror, Gothic. Also Urban Fantasy, Techno Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Weird, but only if one of the previous genres is predominant. Vaporteppa : Italian translation of “steampunk”. They accept genres such as Science Fiction, Science-Fantasy and a bit of Fantasy (if not medieval). It's better if you send Steampunk and Dieselpunk stories, retrofuturistic stories with references to the 19th century. Acheron Books : the site is in English, but they also publish in Italian.
They are looking for science fiction (and various subgenres), fantasy, horror. Italian settings with strong links to Italian folklore, legends, art and history. Edizioni Il Vento Antico : they are looking for long stories between 25,000 and 50,000 characters. The chosen stories are published in the "Take Away" series, which comes out on the first of each month. Few, right? If any of you have any more names, please write them in the comments. I will review it and list it. Where do I place my stories? The idea of writing an article on the ebook short story market came to me when I started looking for publishers to propose some stories I wrote. I had already known those 3 publishers for some time. I already sent a story to Delos in July, but so far no response. So I started looking for other publishing houses that accepted single stories, but I didn't find anything else. The 40K publishing house publishes single stories in ebooks, but so far it has published well-known names in science fiction such as Dario Tonani and Giovanni De Matteo. They accept proposals for non-fiction, but no fiction.
Publishers who publish single stories in ebooks Here is my very short list. Delos Digital : they prefer stories from 50,000 characters onwards and have different genres: Eroticism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comics, Crime, Horror, Fiction, Poetry, Romance, Espionage, Steampunk, Historical, Thriller, Western, Zombie. Nero Press : Accepting manuscripts again Special Data starting in 2018. They publish stories in ebooks between 60,000 and 200,000 characters. The genres are: Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Noir, Horror, Gothic. Also Urban Fantasy, Techno Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Weird, but only if one of the previous genres is predominant. Vaporteppa : Italian translation of “steampunk”. They accept genres such as Science Fiction, Science-Fantasy and a bit of Fantasy (if not medieval). It's better if you send Steampunk and Dieselpunk stories, retrofuturistic stories with references to the 19th century. Acheron Books : the site is in English, but they also publish in Italian.
They are looking for science fiction (and various subgenres), fantasy, horror. Italian settings with strong links to Italian folklore, legends, art and history. Edizioni Il Vento Antico : they are looking for long stories between 25,000 and 50,000 characters. The chosen stories are published in the "Take Away" series, which comes out on the first of each month. Few, right? If any of you have any more names, please write them in the comments. I will review it and list it. Where do I place my stories? The idea of writing an article on the ebook short story market came to me when I started looking for publishers to propose some stories I wrote. I had already known those 3 publishers for some time. I already sent a story to Delos in July, but so far no response. So I started looking for other publishing houses that accepted single stories, but I didn't find anything else. The 40K publishing house publishes single stories in ebooks, but so far it has published well-known names in science fiction such as Dario Tonani and Giovanni De Matteo. They accept proposals for non-fiction, but no fiction.