Thank you for your interest in submitting your book to Tu Publishing. While we are not yet open for submissions, we hope to be come January 2010, if our Kickstarter fundraiser is successful.
Our first two books will be fantasy or science fiction, and we’ll specifically be looking for books that feature characters of color, characters from minority or non-Western cultures, and/or non-Western/minority cultures. That’s pretty broad — it could be Japanese or Jamaican, Alaskan Inuit or African American settings and/or characters. We won’t be looking for books where race is necessarily the issue–just really great novels that will entertain readers from 7 to 18.
So if you’ve got a children’s or YA novel that you think will fit this criteria, if we make our Kickstarter goal we’ll be acquiring manuscripts beginning January 1. That means you’ve got just over three months to whip that manuscript in shape! We will post more specifics here as that time comes closer.
Tu Publishing's editorial director Stacy Whitman has worked as an editor at a trade magazine, at Houghton Mifflin's school division, and at Mirrorstone, an imprint of Wizards of the Coast, where she worked on children's and young adult fantasy. In her current day job, she is the publication manager for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. She holds a master's degree in children's literature from Simmons College. 