NEW YORK CITY, New York – Weekly Humorist’s publishing humor imprint, Humorist Books has launched it’s first submission call for the month of May! All humor types are accepted, fiction, comics, gift books and more! From the release:

Humorist Books is open for submissions for the entire month of May! We’re casting a wide net. Novels; essay, short story, and humor collections; parodies; novelty books; comics; poetry—we want to see it all.

Since launching last year, Humorist Books has come out with two titles, From the Campaign Trail or Thereabouts, a novel by Michael Bleicher and Andy Newton, and If You Give the President a Twitter Account, a children’s book parody written and illustrated by Matt Lassen, and there are more to come in 2020.

What to include in your submission: Please email a query letter and the first 50 pages of your manuscript to submissions@humoristbooks.com  (If your manuscript is fewer than 50 pages, send the whole thing over.) Simultaneous submissions are absolutely fine. Just let us know if you need to withdraw your manuscript from consideration.

Responses will be slow to come—likely, glacially so. Thank you for bearing with us and not filling our inbox with follow-up messages.

Any submissions received after May 31st will be ignored with all the steadfastness of your protestant father. If you aren’t able to submit your query before the end of May, don’t worry, we will reopen for submissions again in the fall/winter.