Fitzroy Books Information

At Fitzroy Books, we are ardently devoted to our authors. While there are advantages to having a literary agent, it can be as difficult to sign with an agent as it is to find a traditional publisher. At Fitzroy we firmly believe in welcoming un-agented authors, which we do through open submissions and higher royalties for independent authors. Every Fitzroy writer we represent gets detailed editorial consultations as their manuscripts go through several tiers of editing. In the initial stages, authors work closely with Fitzroy's acquisition and content editors and subsequently with our senior editor for line-by-line grammatical polishing. Josephus Daniels declared that "dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung," and a gallows-fate from which Fitzroy editors, then, are safely exempt! Not only does this focused editorial process produce the most professionally polished manuscripts, ones of which both author and Fitzroy can be proud, but it saves our authors between three and five thousand dollars that vanity presses conventionally expect authors to expend. We are simply thrilled to be working with authors and often find this editing process to be one full of enthusiasm and excitement on both sides.