About
Dark Passages Publishing is a New York based imprint that endeavors to publish the best new crime novellas. Founded in 2015 by P.A.M. Jensen, Dark Passages Publishing publishes a range of crime fiction.
Whether it’s mystery, noir, hardboiled, psychological, thriller, pulp, or literary crime, Dark Passages Publishing is looking to promote strong voices and novellas that exceed expectations and surprise the reader in both context and form. Give us something nebulous, something gritty, something radical, compelling stories with intriguing characters and quality writing. We’re hungry for work that unsettles and thrills with language and twists.Dark Passages Publishing is a world populated by psychopaths, sociopaths, misfits, and sundry fellow travelers ebbing and flowing in the common goals of “the big score,” “achieving total dominance,” and “righting wrongs.” We want a world whose narrators’ understanding of such things in direct contrast to the world at large, due to their own peculiar world views, is embedded in quest of their goals. Such a world has been covered by Jim Thompson and Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich. Think The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters, The Killing, and No Hope for Tomorrow.
Dark Passages Publishing is an eBook/POD publisher. We are a royalty paying market.Dark Passages Publishing has returned to publishing after a long hiatus.
Give us something nebulous, something gritty, something radical, compelling stories with intriguing characters and quality writing.
We accept manuscripts from 20,000-35,000 words.
Please submit original material only; no reprints. We do not accept multiple submissions. Please submit the entire manuscript in PDF format. Manuscripts must include word count and pagination.
We read BLIND. Please do not include any personal or biographical information in the submission itself. Failure to comply with our guidelines may result in a delay of considering your submission and/or declination of your work.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable so long as we are notified in your coverletter and if/when your work is accepted by another press. We do not permit multiple submissions. You may submit again only after you receive a declination.
If your work is accepted by another press, please let us know where it was accepted in your withdrawal so we can send our many congratulations.
We aim to respond to your submission within 6-12 weeks of receipt. Please feel free to query after 90 days.