Submissions Information
Leamington is not open for submissions at present and this is due to capacity. If funded to a minimum we are able to comfortably publish four books per year by the traditional method. Our list is currently filled with projects until 2027.
Funding for Leamington has in the past come from loans, the personal finances of the owners, and in 2025, from Creative Scotland.
The traditional method of publsihing is expensive. This much sought after traditional method involves a sales team, warehousing, production and editorial of course, and this same traditional method involves large amounts of ready capital and super-costly transportation and storage methods.
This is why we are moving many of our titles, including some future titles, to Ingram Spark, a high quality print on demand service that allows bookstores — traditionally averse to print on demand — to order and stock our titles. If this move is a success for us, costs will lower substantially.
We are interested in writers from all backgrounds and of all levels of experience. One of the greatest joys in commercial publishing is reading new material, meeting new authors, and working on new books. We are still reading new books and meeting new authors all of the time, and sometimes through our networks, we contact writers and request material from them.
Submissions are closed as we say, and at this stage we would not advise you to approach Leamington if you are interested in being published in the 'traditional' manner, as we no longer feel we are able to support this.
To publish your book we require at the very least continuing input from an editor, from a cover designer and a book designer, from marketing and sales professionals, and others who play an important part, for example professionals that can manage our book data across Consonance, Stison, Neilsen and through our distributor's management site Infosource. The minimum cost for a book might be in the region of £5,000, although we've found that books will usually cost more, if done properly — indeed you might say if done 'tradtionally'. All of this money need be obtained in advance, and we do not ask our authors for financial contributions.
Our first titles of 2026 will be published traditionally, thanks to support from Creative Scotland — and pending action on future funding, the immediate titles we publish after that will be made available across the many platforms used for distribution by Ingram Spark.
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If you are a new writer looking for a home for your novel or book of poetry or non-fiction work, or an established writer looking for a new publisher for your latest book, we would ordinarily be a great home. It's surprising to us that having been in this business for nearly 30 years, the traditional publishing method is still the standard and that other publishing methods have made little impact. If our new model of working via Ingram Spark works for us, and makes our titles generally profitable in 2026, this will allow us to invest in writing like yours, in the future years.
Last updated by Peter Burnett on 07.10.2025