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INDEPENDENT PRESS OPPORTUNITIES

Verso Books

Verso Books claims to be ‘the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world,’ writes PDR Lindsay-Salmon.

It publishes one hundred books a year, as well as a blog, and holds a book club. As the work published is radical the majority of the list is non-fiction, and their fiction list is by invitation.

Query with a non-fiction publisher’s packet of fifteen pages, and include one or two pages providing an

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