Bring us the book they don't know what to do with.
Miscreant Media is growing beyond the work that started it. We are building an independent press for writers, artists, and creators making singular books with a reason to exist. If the work has a distinct voice, a strong point of view, and the potential to become something remarkable in print, we want to see it.
We are building the press we wanted to find.
Miscreant began as a home for our own strange books. The next chapter is larger: selected work by other independent writers, artists, and creators, published under the Miscreant name.
We choose the projects we publish and approach each one editorially, visually, physically, and commercially. The goal is not to make every title look like Miscreant. The goal is to help each title become fully itself, then make sure it belongs in the same catalog.
Selective by design.
We are not trying to publish everything. A smaller list gives each project room to have an identity and gives us room to care about the details.
Project by project.
Different books need different things. We would rather make thoughtful decisions around the work in front of us than force every project through the same machine.
Different books. Same standard.
No checklist can tell us whether a book works.
Genre matters less than intent. We are drawn to work with a distinct voice, a clear reason for taking the form it takes, and enough life on the page to make us want to keep turning it.
A voice we can recognize.
Work that feels authored rather than manufactured. We want to feel a person behind the choices on the page.
A reason for the form.
If it is a comic, illustrated book, hybrid, experiment, or unusual format, the form should be doing work the words cannot do alone.
A point of view.
We are interested in books that know what they care about, even when they refuse easy classification or conventional structure.
Something alive on the page.
Polish helps. Perfection is not the entry fee. We would rather encounter a compelling work with rough edges than a flawless manuscript with no pulse.
Something we can build with you.
The most exciting projects make us start imagining the book itself: its rhythm, design, scale, material, and place in the Miscreant catalog.
The book is the project.
We care about what is on the page and what the finished object becomes. Publishing, to us, is not a manuscript followed by packaging.
Editorial attention.
We engage with the work as a book, not a file moving through production. The editorial approach depends on what the project actually needs.
Design with a reason.
Cover, typography, illustration, pacing, format, and visual identity belong to the thinking from the beginning, not as decoration added at the end.
The physical object.
Paper, binding, scale, reproduction, finishes, and the way a book feels in the hand matter. We care about making choices that serve the work and survive actual production.
A place in the catalog.
Each title should have its own identity while adding something meaningful to the larger Miscreant body of work. We are building a catalog, not feeding an algorithm.
Projects differ. So do the terms.
We define the scope of editing, design, art, production, launch, and other support with each project. We would rather be clear about what we can do for a particular book than promise the same package to every creator. This page is an invitation to publishing consideration, not a menu of author services.
This is what we mean when we say we make books with intention.
Miscreant projects do not share one aesthetic. They share a refusal to be generic.
Miscreant Anthology
175 creators. 700 pages. Comics, fiction, poetry, art, photography, and hybrids built into one enormous independent volume.
Explore the project
When We Were The Voyage
304 pages. More than 23 illustrators. Kickstarter-born transgressive cosmic horror built without sanding down the edges.
Enter WWWTV
THOR: Book One
An illustrated literary saga rooted in the Poetic and Prose Eddas, constructed across twenty-four runes and two volumes.
Enter THOR
Miscreant Resurrections
A curated line restoring strange, charged, neglected books through new editions and commissioned original covers. Six titles rise in Season One.
Enter ResurrectionsFirst book or tenth. Show us what you made.
You do not need an agent, a previous publisher, a giant audience, or a resume engineered to impress us before you approach Miscreant.
Bring enough of the work for us to understand what it is, and enough about yourself for us to understand why you care about making it.
Some projects will arrive ready. Some will still be finding their final shape. Some will be strong books that simply belong somewhere else. What matters at first contact is whether there is something here worth a real conversation.
Show us what you're working on.
The first contact can be simple. Give us enough to understand the project, the work, and the person making it.
Tell us what it is.
A concise description of the project, its form, and where it currently stands.
Show us the work.
Share enough material for us to get inside it: sample pages, an excerpt, art, a dummy, or whatever best represents the project. A private link is ideal for first contact.
Tell us about you.
A little context is useful. Who are you, what are you making, and why do you think Miscreant might be the right home for this particular book?
Use the Miscreant Media contact form and put SUBMISSION / PROJECT TITLE in the subject line. Include a concise pitch and a private link to sample material. Please do not send unsolicited physical materials. If the project feels like a possible fit, we will continue the conversation from there.