Triskaideka Books has been alive for over a year now and we are taking things slowly by only accepting the best of new work and writers out there. We have a 99% rejection rate. Some publishers build their name by taking on hundreds of writers and books at a time, off-setting cost between good and bad selling titles. We are not like that. We take books that we love and want to share with the world.

Our books are released in e-format only. We have decided to STOP the print publishing arm of Triskaideka Books.

Triskaideka Books is run by one person with guest editors, so you know you are getting personal attention.

We select titles that excite us and get our blood boiling. We’re bare bones at the moment – a skeleton hungry for flesh.  

Our company name, Triskaideka means 13 (actual translation is: 3 and 10). We searched long and hard for a company name that would give you, the reader, an idea of what it is we publish. Thirteen can mean good or bad depending on how you look at it, and on reflection “thirteen” doesn’t really tell you what kinds of terror you will devour from our offerings, but Triskaideka is an awesome name and so it stays; leading us to write an explanation of what it is we are after and what you will eventually find here.

What we are looking for is listed on the submissions page. And our guidelines are simple to follow. Frankly I don’t understand why different publishers _need_ to have their own set of guidelines and special format options. Twenty years ago there was only one set of guidelines, and that’s the one we follow (the only difference is that we all live in an electronic world). Our submission guidelines page will tell you more.

Speculative fiction is a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally overlaps one or more of the following: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.

In short: It gets the blood boiling and the heart pounding with a desperate NEED to turn the page.

Send them all along, let us taste the blood and smell the fear. Show us what’s going on and take us on a wild journey with your characters, where we both don’t know what’s about to happen next.

And yes, we do consider YA books.