Our Guidelines
Violet Lichen Books seeks to work with authors who have a strong attachment to the themes, people, or places they’re writing about, and who sling their dark tales straight from the heart. We are especially interested in works by marginalized and under-represented authors. Scroll down for more info.
What We’re Looking For
Original works and unique voices. We are looking for atmospheric and thought-provoking novellas that intertwine a fascination of the natural world with horror and dread, and those that explore how we, as individual humans, interconnect with our communities, other species, and whole ecosystems.
We love weird fiction that unsettles, expands perspectives, and plays with bending reality, traditions, or tropes.
Payment & Distribution
Industry standard advance and royalties.
Violet Lichen titles are distributed by Independent Publishers Group.
What We’re Not Looking For
Slasher horror, shock horror, extreme horror. Classic monsters (Unless completely subverted in a new and weird way). High fantasy, sword and sorcery, superheroes space opera. YA or MG. Full-length novels or collections. Reprints.
No AI. We are not interested in works written by AI in any form or at any stage. We work with human-made art only.
Word Count
Novellas of 30,000 to 45,000 words
Genre Wishlist
Speculative ecofiction (e.g. eco-horror, eco science fiction), New Weird, Weird, folk horror, surreal and literary science fiction, horror and fantasy.
Response Time
Please allow at least 12 weeks for a response. After this, feel welcome to query!
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