REAL WRITER'S MARKET 2026: Independent Publishers Worldwide - UNABRIDGED -

by Philip

Welcome to Real Writer's Market: Independent Publishers, Small Presses. Real Writer’s Market is your guide to the burgeoning, global publishing marketplace: both literary and commercial. These are real publishing houses where you can submit your book proposals, fiction and non-fiction. Prose. Poetry, too. No agent required. When I set out on this journey over a year ago, I had no idea I'd wind up here. At the urging of my fellow AIG authors, I decided to dust off that old list of book publishers and post it somewhere or something. More than a thousand pages later, REAL WRITER’S MARKET has finally arrived. Hi everybody, and welcome to the 2026, latest greatest edition of REAL WRITER’S MARKET. It's a book, of course. What else? But it’s a lot more. You’ll see. So I had this awesome list for years that we swapped back and forth over at the IAG, but it was really nothing more than a simple tear sheet. It was all there in my head, somewhere; but with how I was getting on in years I knew: if I didn’t put it down soon, one day it would be lost. I set out on what I was sure what be nothing more than a three-hour cruise, maybe just a hundred good publishers or so. Spread them out a little, not just all USA. After a little while I realized, there was a gold mine here. At first it was going to be just 100. Then it was 200. Then 300. From there, it got completely out of hand. More than 500 publishers later (800 imprints), REAL WRITER’S MARKET is akin to some big old unabridged dictionary rising slowly and ceremoniously out from the Earth. Like in a Stanley Kubrick movie. This book is Huge. These are real book publishers from all over the world that you just won’t find at places like Duotrope or Poets & Writers. No offense. These are Gold. So why does the world need another boring ole reference book? For one thing: it’s a book. It’s personal. You know what I’m talking about. Secondly, unlike other R books, RWM jumps right into it. No gratuitous how-to articles or long-winded introductions, just 1,000+ pages of in-depth publisher listings. Listings include complete manuscript and submissions details, all publisher data and contact info, Editor MSWL, sales and acquisitions. Everything you need to find just the right publisher for your book. RWM is 155,000 words of raw publishing power. There are no page-fillers here. No throwaway entries. Every one of the publishers is a premium listing. Verified, and open for submissions. You’ll see. It’ll take you six weeks, more, just to get through the book once. It’s quite an adventure. REAL WRITER’S MARKET is your guide to the burgeoning, global publishing marketplace. Expanded listings for all Tier-1 markets: USA, Canada, UK, ANZ, IE. The digital age isn’t only changing the world, it’s opening it up. New markets are emerging on the Indian subcontinent every day (population 2 billion). Southeast Asia, too. Top new markets include Hong Kong, Singapore and the Oceania archipelago. Africa. The Caribbean. I was a stock market writer for over 30 years. Medical insurance. I know how to dig. Believe me, by the time you finish this book, not only will you have made twenty, twenty-five solid submissions, you’ll feel like you’ve traveled the world over. You have. Sincerely, Philip Loyd Thank you and Happy Publishing!