[Publisher] Head of Zeus

Adding link: http://www.headofzeus.com/

There's no page about submissions, so I don't think they're currently accepting unsolicited submissions.

That aside, their covers are gorgeous, and they look very professional. They've only started since January. My only complaint is that they seem to publish a large variety of genres.

From their about us page:

Our list will be a mix of general and literary fiction, genre fiction and non fiction.

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I do like that they're only publishing 24 titles this year, and 36 the next year. That's 2 titles a month, and 3 titles next year.

Anthony Cheetham, the CEO, is hugely experienced in UK publishing and they have some seriously heavyweight authors on board

Here's a little more on Cheetam's new post:

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/nicolas-cheetham-join-head-zeus.html

Any relation to Mic Cheetham?

HapiSofi said:

Any relation to Mic Cheetham?

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Not as far as I know.

Anything more on this company? I noticed some of their books got picked up by big publishers in the U.S.

I see their books regularly in Waterstones. Never heard of any of their editorial staff attending conventions, or seen any indication that they are other than agent-only submissions.

They are open to submissions from unsolicited material.

Undercover said:

They are open to submissions from unsolicited material.

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I currently see a notice "Submissions Are Closed" on their website. Are they periodically open to unsolicited submissions?

Anyone have any experience with them? They are currently open to submissions.

They are still open to submissions. Anyone else have any information?

I subbed to them back in May this year and got a rejection in 3 weeks

Aria Fiction

Had an author friend announce a publishing deal with this publisher and had never heard of them. Didn't find them in the index here either. Anyone know anything about them?

https://ariafiction.com

Looks like they are an imprint of Head of Zeus - there's a thread already but not a whole lot of info: https://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?241379-Publisher-Head-of-Zeus

Head of Zeus are the publisher through whom horror legend Graham Masterton reinvented himself as a bestselling "horrorey thriller" writer in the Thomas Harris/James Patterson department, with the adventures taking place in contemporary Cork, Ireland.
http://katiemaguire.co.uk/

Mr. Masterton is a prime example of the horror giants (who are not called Stephen King) who appeared in the original 1970's wave, hit the bestseller lists, got films made (his was with Tony Curtis, The Manitou), then coasted through the 1980's while producing gruesome thrills, and then when the horror market collapsed at the same time that the USSR did--either gave up, or drifted to the small indie presses, there becoming the biggest names in a tiny pool, and sales and popularity-wise resigned to at best "being big in Eastern Belarus" or such. Like, for example, Ramsey Campbell experimented with Samhain, with little to show for it (and is now mainly with PS Publishing), and Edward Lee became the main name in Necro Publications, and so on.

But when Head of Zeus took over Graham Masterton after like a quarter of a century of "being big in Southern Moldavia", he suddenly became a bestseller back in Britain again, selling hundreds of thousands of copies for the first time since horror's peak way back when.

So something clicked there, someone did the right thing, which is no guarantee, as evident with the careers of the other old timey horror giants who can't seem to catch a break since like 1989. It can't have been just Mr. Masterton being top notch, because the rest of his peers are also top notch. It must've been Head of Zeus making some real good choices and maintaining some real solid efforts, IMO.

That's no guarantee that the next person working with them will become a star, but unlike most of their competition, they have a specific success story I can point to. Because of being a fan of Graham Masterton, and therefore more or less keeping up with the man's winding journey.

Scythian said:

That's no guarantee that the next person working with them will become a star, but unlike most of their competition, they have a specific success story I can point to. Because of being a fan of Graham Masterton, and therefore more or less keeping up with the man's winding journey.

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I'm still a little sad that there's no Kindle version of Night Warriors. I'd pick that up in a heartbeat.

I've just gone through one hell of a time trying to submit to them, failing to register/log-in properly about four times. They want you to subscribe to their mailing list as a default before submission. I think, anyway. I do like them very much and they have a great rep. Can anybody furnish me with a way to contact them? Or how did you or someone you know do it? Guh. I'm at a loss.

Thanks for any help,

kTri

I think I ended up emailing them too, but then just created a brand new account (with a new email address) to submit and that worked. For a previous submission before that, I contacted Laura Palmer directly and she got me to email the manuscript in (but it had previously been submitted by an agent).

There was definitely something up with their online submissions the last time I tried it. Pretty sure creating a new account and email worked and allowed me to submit.

Thanks, writera. I did use an alternate account and that didn't seem to work. I have one more left to try, and it's a Yahoo account. How do I go about contacting Laura Palmer directly? Do they have personal emails in their staff page? If they do, I missed it. BTW, their staff is huge.

I was given the email address to withdraw or check in about my manuscript that my former agent had submitted. I only emailed her directly because I was following up on a previous agented submission. She was very nice but I was rejected in the end anyway. And again when I submitted on their website. The second time, I remember having a lot of problems trying to register/login. There's definitely something up with their submissions portal. If registering a new account doesn't work, it might be a good idea to email them directly and tell them and ask if you can submit directly via email. There's email addresses and a contact form here: http://headofzeus.com/about-us

anyone have recent contact with HoZ? Their subscriptions page has shown as closed for going on two years, but earlier this year they did a promo with an online proposal review podcast. That made me think they might reopen soon.