Sunbury Press has been publishing books since 2004. We are a rapidly growing traditional publisher in a wide range of categories. We typically receive about 2000 proposals a year, selecting only 100 of them for publication (about 5%). We choose to invest only in those opportunities that we feel have the best chance in the marketplace. 

Please read carefully!

We publish our books under several category-focused imprints. Be sure to submit your manuscript to ONLY one Imprint. 

In 2023, at least 70% of our titles will be nonfiction (NF). We are especially interested in manuscripts for our Local History, Sunbury Press, Catamount Press, and Distelfink Press imprints, but feel free to submit to other nonfiction imprints as well. If you are submitting fiction (F), please be advised that we are being very selective. 

Nonfiction

1. Sunbury Press is our primary nonfiction imprint. The Sunbury Press imprint is best known for history, military fiction, biography, memoir, and other nonfiction categories.

2. Hearth and Home Press features books of a more practical nature, including Crafts and Hobbies, Cooking, Personal/Practical/Emergency Preparedness, Games and Activities, House and Home, Sustainable Living, Homesteading, and Gardening.

3. Distelfink Press is our Pennsylvania Dutch / Pennsylvania German culture imprint.

4. Oxford Southern is for academic, medical, biographical, social science, and educational content.

5. Local History Press is our new local and regional history imprint.

6. Radio Free Press is our new political imprint.

Nonfiction / Fiction

1. Roswell Press is our new paranormal, alien, UFO, supernatural, cryptics, occultism, sci-fi, and strange phenomenon nonfiction and fiction imprint.

2. Ars Metaphysica is our spiritual, metaphysical, new age, fiction, and religion (except Christian) nonfiction imprint.

3. Catamount Press imprint focuses on literature and creative nonfiction related to the Northern Appalachia region.

4. Brown Posey Press is our literary fiction and creative nonfiction imprint. We also publish our art and music titles under this imprint.

5. Scriptoria Press is our new Christian nonfiction and fiction imprint.

Fiction

1. Milford House Press is our general fiction imprint, including historical and legal fiction, and including cozy mysteries and westerns.

2. Hellbender Books is our horror, psychological thrillers, dystopian (except YA), and fantasy imprint.

3. The Agency Books is our new detective, government conspiracies, law enforcement, espionage, terrorism, FBI/CIA/NSA, and spy thriller imprint.

4. Loch Ness Books is our Young Adult (YA) imprint.

5. Verboten Books is our imprint for mature and dark humor fiction.


Please DO NOT MAIL HARD COPY to us. We prefer electronic submissions.

Please do not call us about your proposal. We ask that you please leave our phone lines open for our ordering customers. You may follow the progress of your proposal via this submission site. The review process can be up to 18 months, depending on the category, the number of open submissions, and our needs. During this time you are welcome to submit your proposals to other publishers.

Submit to Ars Metaphysica

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Ars Metaphysica is our spiritual, metaphysical, new age, fiction, and religion (except Christian) nonfiction imprint. Please submit Christian titles to Scriptoria Press.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.
Submit to Brown Posey Press

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Brown Posey Press is our literary fiction and creative nonfiction imprint. We also publish our art and music titles under this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.
Submit to Catamount Press

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Catamount Press imprint focuses on literature and creative nonfiction related to the Northern Appalachia region.


Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.
Submit to Distelfink Press

Please read carefully.

Distelfink Press is our Pennsylvania Dutch / Pennsylvania German culture imprint.

Please do NOT submit fiction to this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions. 
Submit to Hearth and Home Press

Please read carefully.

Hearth and Home Press features books of a more practical nature, including Crafts and Hobbies, Cooking, Personal/Practical/Emergency Preparedness, Games and Activities, House and Home, Sustainable Living, Homesteading, and Gardening.

Please do NOT submit fiction to this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.
Submit to Hellbender Books

Please read carefully.

Hellbender Books is our horror, psychological thrillers, dystopian (except YA), and fantasy imprint.

Please do NOT submit nonfiction to this imprint.


Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.
Submit to Local History Press

Please read carefully.

Local History Press is our new local and regional history imprint.

Please do NOT submit fiction to this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.
Submit to Loch Ness Books

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Loch Ness Books is our new Young Adult (YA) imprint.

Please do NOT submit nonfiction to this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

  

Submit to Milford House Press

Please read carefully.

Milford House Press is our general fiction imprint, including historical and legal fiction, and including cozy mysteries and westerns.

Please do NOT submit nonfiction to this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

 

Submit to Oxford Southern Imprint

Please read carefully.

Oxford Southern is for academic, medical, biographical, social science, and educational content.

Please do NOT submit fiction to this imprint.


Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

   

Submit to Radio Free Press

Please read carefully.

Radio Free Press is our new political nonfiction imprint.

Please do NOT submit fiction to this imprint.


Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

  

Submit to Roswell Press

Please read carefully.

Roswell Press is our new paranormal, alien, UFO, supernatural, cryptics, occultism, sci-fi, and strange phenomenon nonfiction and fiction imprint.


Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

 

Submit to Scriptoria Press

Please read carefully.

Scriptoria Press is our new Christian nonfiction and fiction imprint.


Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

  

Sunbury Press Submission Form
Submit to Sunbury Press Submission Form

Please read carefully.

Sunbury Press imprint is best known for history, military fiction, biography, memoir, and other nonfiction categories.

Please do NOT submit fiction to this imprint.


 Submission Requirements 

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

  

Submit to The Agency Books

Please read carefully.

The Agency Books is our new detective, government conspiracies, law enforcement, espionage, terrorism, FBI/CIA/NSA, and spy thriller imprint.

Please do NOT submit nonfiction to this imprint.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

  

Submit to Verboten Books

Please read carefully.
We are generally seeking manuscripts in the following categories:
Non-Fiction: History, Biography, Local History, Memoir, Science, Education, Politics, True Crime, Christian, Spiritual, How-To, Self-Help, Paranormal, Metaphysical, DIY, House and Home, Cooking, Homesteading, Sustainable Living and Gardening.
Fiction: We are accepting very few new fiction submissions at this time. Our fiction offerings in 2021 will primarily come from our existing authors.


Verboten Books is our imprint for mature content.

Submission Requirements

  1. We are only interested in hearing from you after your manuscript is complete.
  2. Be sure to complete the entire submission form.
  3. Be sure to include your author biography or CV.
  4. At this stage, please submit at least 3 chapters from your manuscript.
  5. If illustrations or photos are to be included, please include samples. 
  6. We can only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, or ODT.
  7. REMEMBER to follow ALL form instructions (located next to the entry fields). If instructions are not followed, the proposal will be rejected. PLEASE read and follow ALL instructions.

  

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