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The Reck House Press is a small publisher of quality nonfiction and fiction located along the shores of the Kennebec River near the Doubling Point Light at Fiddler's Reach and Winnegance Bay, in Bath, Maine.
Our interests are fiction and popular and cultural history (including memoirs, letters, journals, and biographies), which we offer through our Sidebar Historian® series.
At the moment we are soliciting mysteries and cultural history manuscripts. Before you submit even a query, please review our Frequently Asked Questions/Submission Guidelines.
If you hover your mouse above a typewriter key on the navigation bar (at the top of each page, right under our Reck House Press banner and logo), you'll see the title of page associated with that icon. Or visit our sitemap to see how these webpages are organized.
Maine Literary Awards finalist! The Maine Literary Awards has just announced that the second book in Janis Bolster's Sally Jean Chalmers mystery series, The Lost Daughters, is a finalist for their 2012 crime award. The first book in the series, Murder in Two Tenses, introduces recent college graduate Sally Jean, who thinks her only job is to edit a manuscript about a Victorian crime. But the project includes a very contemporary murder, and survival is not a skill listed on her rather thin editorial resume. In The Lost Daughters Sally has moved to Portland, Maine, where she finds freelance work editing a nineteenth-century diary for the affluent Cottrells. She becomes fascinated by the Cottrell family history, entangled in Amy Cottrell's quest for the hidden jewels mentioned in the diary, and then a very, very viable suspect in Amy's murder. You can order The Lost Daughters and Murder in Two Tenses directly from us, or through Amazon.
From the It's All Good News Department: Much as we love books of paper pulp, we're moving into electronic books as well. We expect that some of our forthcoming titles will be issued only as multi-platformed eBooks.
If you have a manuscript you think might interest us, please review our Frequently Asked Questions/Submission Guidelines before submitting your query.
Because so many of the queries we have received recently have been incomplete, and because we really don't want to reject your query just because you've not given us enough information on which to make an informed decision, we've expanded our submission guidelines. We revise these continually so please check frequently, and certainly just before you submit! Review the guidelines carefully, and delay your query until you can answer all applicable questions on the query form (and remember that questions about reader outreach are applicable to all queries).
We've also expanded our guidance for synopses and first-chapter submissions. That's also reachable from the FAQ page.
We have a special form for queries, and cannot consider queries that reach us through any other channel.
Once we announce the publication date for a book and post a definitive price on our website, we accept advance orders for it. For a currently available book, or a title for which we are accepting advance orders, look for the "Add to Cart" button at the bottom of that book's page. You can order (through PayPal, or with a credit card) by clicking through to a very secure website from the "Add to Cart" button. Please see our order page for more information.
Reck House publications and its website enjoy copyright protection, with all rights reserved. Excepting brief excerpts for critical reviews, no part of a Reck House publication or the press website may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the express written permission of Reck House Press. Please contact the Reck House Press staff for a permissions request form.
Our editor-in-chief has been working professionally in the publishing field for more than twenty-five years and brings to the press a lifetime of reading, writing, and thinking about fiction and creative nonfiction. Work with the writers' groups she has coordinated and with the clients of her business, Rockfall Editorial Services, has sharpened her enthusiasm for the well-chosen word in the most suitable setting.
Our creative director adds an avid interest in cultural history to her twenty-year design and communication background, and has authored several books of fiction and nonfiction.
Please use our query form when submitting work for our consideration. We cannot respond to queries that arrive in any other fashion.
For any other communications, please use the Reck House Press contact form.
Before you say, Good grief, NO!!! please understand that we hate being inundated with junk email as much as you do, and so we respectfully pledge to contact you only when we are announcing a title that might be of interest to you, or a publication party or reading in your area.
And of course, we never, ever sell or share our mailing list, and – while we'll hate to see you go – you can ask to be removed from the list at any time and we'll comply quickly, albeit with heavy heart.
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