Submission Info

How to submit: send us a query!

We welcome queries from writers and agents. Your query should be a 3-5 paragraph email summarizing your book, explaining why you think it would be a good fit for Belt, and providing us information about your previous publications and relevant experience.

If we think the query has potential for us, we will reply and request a full proposal. (A good resource for how to write book proposals can be found here.) If you do not hear from us after a month, assume we are not interested.

What we are currently looking for:

Narrative histories of the Rust Belt and/or Midwest. 

Cultural criticism with sharp analyses and strong writing. 

Novels in which place, preferably the Rust Belt/Midwest, is a character. 

Cartographers interested in adding to our 50 Maps Series. 

Editors interested in adding to our various anthology series. 

Food writers and recipe developers for our Cookbook Series.

We are also actively acquiring books about natural and environmental history, historical and natural field guides, politics, the regional roots of a musical genre, researched nonfiction on topical issues, books about place not covered in the above, and queries that make us go "wow what a great idea, and what a good fit it would be for us." 

Please send all queries to query@beltpublishing.com. Do not include a proposal or any attachments. We read them all, we promise!