Teachers’ Notes for When Dark Roots Hunt (pdf, 1.4 Mb)
Book Club Questions – When Dark Roots Hunt
When Dark Roots Hunt – Book Club Questions (pdf, 1.4 Mb)
We are Reopening Submissions!
Submissions will from now on only be accepted from the 1st to the 7th of each month, with submissions reopening from the 1st of September until the 7th of September 2023. Submissions will then be closed again until the 1-7st of October. So you have a week of every month to submit. Please note, any submissions sent outside of this time will not be considered and will not be replied to.
Please send a digital copy of your submission to submissions@midnightsunpublishing.com. Please include a subject line stating your name, the title of your manuscript, and its genre (e.g.: Jane Doe, ‘High Tea’, Picture Book). Please attach your manuscript as a Word document or Word docx. only, titled, ‘Name: Manuscript Title’ (e.g. Jane Doe: High Tea).
Send the first 20 pages only! If we are compelled to read more, we’ll ask for the rest. We want digital manuscripts with 1.5 or double line spacing. Choose Times New Roman or another easy-to-read font.
Please also include a synopsis of your manuscript (if it’s a longer work. This is not needed for picture books) where you tell us about the main movements in the story, its themes and how it ends. We want to know this. You should not make it a mystery or an enticing blurb. You can attach it as a separate document or make it the first page of your submission.
Please proofread thoroughly and always let someone else read it too before sending us your manuscript. Typos really put us off and we don’t want to turn away an otherwise fantastic project because we have spotted a simple mistake in the first paragraph.
Include a cover letter in the body of the email with your name, the title of your manuscript, your contact details (including email address and phone number) and the word count of your project. If you have previous publications or other relevant experience, please feel free to include it in the letter and also write a paragraph about yourself and your interests if you wish. We would also like to know how you would classify the genre and where it fits in the market. For example, are there any other authors or books you would compare your manuscript to?
Only send one manuscript at a time and wait to receive a response before sending any further projects. This applies to picture books as well as longer fiction. Look at our list carefully and choose only the manuscript that you think would intrigue us the most. Here are some of things we are looking for: stories that are well written (fiction or non-fiction) about interesting characters who are developing a sense of self. The environment, gender diversity, sexuality and desire, feminism, ageing, mental health, physical differences, adversity, racism, love and many other topics are all on our reading lists. We love short stories and novels for adults as well as middle-grade and YA novels and of course picture books.
We are not currently publishing poetry, plays, horror, romance or memoir so please don’t submit manuscripts that fit into those categories.
If you have submitted to us within the designated timeframe and not received a response from us within six months you may email us to check on your submission. Please do not email us earlier than this as your email will not be responded to.
While we do accept simultaneous submissions, it is absolutely essential that you contact us to withdraw your submission if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere or you pursue another mode of publishing, such as self-publishing.
If you follow these guidelines, your manuscript submission will be read by one of our editors. If you have already sent your manuscript according to our previous guidelines, please don’t panic, we will still read your manuscript and respond in due course.
If we love what we read, we will be in touch by email to request a hard copy of the full manuscript to be sent to our office. Please be aware it may take 3-6 months for us to get back to you about your submission. Unfortunately, due to our large workload, we cannot provide individual feedback on submissions.
Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will not be reviewed or responded to.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures
HB 72 | 245 x 280 | ISBN: 9781922858177 | $34.99
Picture book for all ages
MidnightSun Publishing | November 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Take a monstrous journey through the Middle Ages to discover creatures both familiar and unfamiliar.
Explore the hazards of medieval life at the claws, paws and fangs of dragons, wyverns, cockatrices, lamias, manticores, ghouls and Continue reading Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures
This
PB 368 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858146 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | August 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
I don’t get this.
I’m fifteen! And in Year 10!
I don’t have anything to worry about.
But when I wake up one night, terrified, it starts a journey of trying to find out what’s wrong. I can’t go to Mum and Dad. They wouldn’t understand. And they’d make fun of me at school. So I’m off to strange doctors, and scurrying around like everything’s okay, while everything’s coming apart.
I don’t get this.
But I’m gonna try Continue reading This
Teacher Notes – This
Teachers’ Notes for This (pdf, 548 kb)
Tanya Hunter
Tanya’s debut novel is The Quest for the Galleon of Time.
The Quest for the Galleon of Time
PB 208 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858191 | $17.99
Middle-grade | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | August 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
The year is 1738 and eleven-year-old Tobias Crane is forced to leave his home to work as a ship’s lad on a trading galleon. Once onboard, Tobias discovers that the ship is a time-travelling galleon! A galleon that can inexplicably appear in different dimensions in the past, present and future.
A captain’s obsession with revenge will force Tobias and the crew on a dangerous adventure through treacherous waters. With the help of new friends, Tobias must somehow return home to warn his father that Continue reading The Quest for the Galleon of Time
Teacher Notes – Alice’s Shoe
Teachers’ Notes for Alice’s Shoe (pdf, 690 kb)
Teacher Notes – Mizuto and the Wind
Teachers’ Notes for Mizuto and the Wind (pdf, 748 kb)
Teacher Notes – Timefire
Teachers’ Notes for Timefire (pdf, 206 kb)
Julie Thorndyke
Alice’s Shoe
HB 32 | 297 x 210 | ISBN: 9781922858139 | $29.99
Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek… she refused to wear shoes. After losing her sight and hearing through illness, Alice slowly made her way back to life and became the first deafblind person in Australia to be educated. Her hated shoe was Alice’s first connection with the world of language as she learnt to sign. Continue reading Alice’s Shoe
Nean McKenzie
Nean has had three middle-grade novels out with MidnightSun Publishing: Cryptosight (2019), Xenoflight (2022) and Timefire (2023). She was awarded a Maurice Saxby mentorship in 2016, a fellowship for the KSP Writers Centre for 2023 and has a diploma in Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Continue reading Nean McKenzie
Timefire
PB 200 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858030 | $17.99
Middle-grade | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
In the scorching summer of 2033, Gilbert Black is accused of being a firebug, just like his mother was thirteen years previously. That night a fire starts on his family’s farm. A fire with a tunnel in the centre of it. And that’s when things start to get really weird.
Pulled repeatedly back and forth through time, Gil finds himself at big Australian bushfires from the last two centuries. He searches across the years, determined to unlock the secret to his family’s legacy. Gil can’t change the past, but can he learn from it in time to return home and save his family from the biggest inferno ever known? Continue reading Timefire