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. 

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We publish our books under twenty category or region-focused imprints.  

Going forward, at least 60% of our titles will be nonfiction (NF). Following are the imprints for which we are currently seeking manuscripts. 

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

3. Radio Free Press is our political imprint.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Black Suit Press is for books about UK culture, history, and related topics.

Nonfiction / Fiction

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

2. Champlain Press imprint focuses on literature and creative nonfiction related to the Lake Champlain (Adirondacks, Green Mountains, New England region).

3. Lucky Shoe Press imprint focuses on literature and creative nonfiction related to the Southern 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.

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

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

8. Verboten Books is our imprint for mature and dark humor fiction and grittier nonfiction topics.

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.

Children's

1. Speckled Egg Press is our general children's imprint for illustrated books for children in elementary school or younger. We will only consider authors who are already working with illustrators. 

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.