ATTENTION: BLIND EYE BOOKS WILL BE CLOSED TO UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS STARTING OCTOBER 15, 2025.

WE WILL REOPEN FOR A READING PERIOD FEBRUARY 15, 2026.

THE SPRING 2026 READING PERIOD WILL OCCUR FROM FEBRUARY 15 TO MARCH 15 2026.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

Guidelines for WRiters

Blind Eye Books publishes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance novels featuring LGBTQ protagonists. We do not publish short story collections, poetry, erotica, horror or non-fiction. We would hesitate to publish any manuscript that is less than 70,000 or over 150,000 words.

Please include your real name, real street address and real phone number as well as your email address (presumably real) in the upper left hand corner on the first page of your manuscript. If you write under a pen name, you would put your pen name underneath the title on the first page of your manuscript.

See our example.

Please adhere to standard manuscript formatting practices. (You can learn more about what this is and why you should comply here.)

Please also submit a short synopsis of the novel.

Please do not send queries, outlines, or partial manuscripts.

Our readers may keep the manuscript for up to thirty days. Please do not query before then. If, however, we’ve kept your story for longer than that, feel free to email the editor and ask for an update.

Blind Eye Books will not consider anonymous writings or manuscripts currently under submission to another publisher.

We accept submissions only.

They should be addressed to Nicole Kimberling at: editor@blindeyebooks.com.