Clark Nova Books

This appears to be the link.

Clark-Nova Books exists as a showcase for the best young literary talent that Canada has to offer. Our purpose is to publish those authors who may be passed over due to their inexperience and not their lack of talent. Clark-Nova Books strives to introduce Canada and the world to the young talent that exists in this country.

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If their web page is to be believed, to date they haven't actually published anything.

It appears to be a startup by person-or-persons unknown.

The usual business trajectory of startup publishers, particularly ones who don't already have a lot of industry experience, resembles the glide-path of a brick.

Have faith in yourself and your book. Start at the top and work down. ("The top" consists of publishers who have books you can see with your own eyes on the shelves of physical bookstores.)

Don't send queries to companies that you've never heard of or that you can't find any information on.

A startup publisher should have enough industry contacts that they can come out of the gate with a list of books by writers you've heard of.

Like agent, "publisher" isn't an entry-level position.

James D. Macdonald said:

The usual business trajectory of startup publishers, particularly ones who don't already have a lot of industry experience, resembles the glide-path of a brick.

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I have no words, so I will use Alexander Pope's instead:

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

And here's our thread on the August Agency.

There's a disturbing lack of information on the Clark-Nova website, IMO.

- Victoria

From their website: Authors must be Canadian, and must be under thirty.