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 During the course of my usual marketing work, I started to compile a list of fantasy/sci-fi publishers to contact about narrating audiobooks. All of this information is publicly available through their websites and LinkedIn, and no personal or proprietary contact is included.

I thought I would share the information that I compiled here with you.

This is, by no means, a complete list. I also cannot verify or guarantee that it has the latest information (people change jobs or leave the company, companies go out of business, etc).

Please use this information for good, not evil.

What should I do with this information?

I would highly, highly recommend that you check out the submission guidelines on their respective webpages. Answer these questions:

• Does your work fit with what they are publishing?

• Are they currently open for new submissions?

• Are you willing to submit using the guidelines that they have outlined?

If the answer is “no” to any of these questions, then you shouldn’t try to submit anyway, or attempt to try to do an end run around their procedures. That will almost guarantee a negative response, not just now, but in the future as well.

This is only a starting point, a place for you to begin looking. Some points to keep in mind:

• Every “no” gets you closer to a “yes”

• “No” doesn’t mean that your writing is bad, it just means that it isn’t right for that publisher right now

Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers before Bloomsbury Publishing bought it. Are the other publishers kicking themselves? Maybe. But maybe if the series had been published by anyone else, it wouldn’t have been the phenomenon that it became.