What are some trusted publishers?

by Emily

My name is Emily and I just tested out my first murder mystery at Halloween with some friends. We had a blast and I hate to see all my hard work go to waste in some box in my basement.

I want to sell my murder mystery! Your article was very helpful, thank you for taking the time to help others out! I was hoping you could suggest some trustworthy publishers, I feel so green about this whole process. If you could help me with contact info that would be great. Please keep in touch and thank you again.

My response:

I would definitely trust the five major publishers that I feature on my site: Freeform Games, Dinner and a Murder Mystery Games, Murder Mystery Games Ltd, Merri Mysteries and Mysteries on the Net. I have dealt with them all professionally (although not as an author) and never had a problem with any of them.

However, in terms of selling your game to them, I suspect their preferences might be different.

I suggest that you drop each of them an email asking if they accept submissions for games and what their submissions policy is.

As far as Freeform Games goes, I know that while they are interested in publishing new authors, they have a very specific house style. If your game doesn't fit that style it will need rewriting (probably a lot of re-writing). So if I were you I'd concentrate on those publishers that already publish similar games to the one you've written.

I hope that helps, and good luck!

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