SilverWood Originals

SilverWood Originals occasionally offers traditional publishing deals to non-fiction work which shows strong commercial appeal – usually local interest titles or those with an identifiable niche market.

We currently publish Maggie Ashford's Memories of a PierMaster's Mistress as a SilverWood Original title. The book is available on board the paddle steamer Waverley and in many local outlets in the Clevedon and North Somerset area. Alternatively, you can purchase online in our bookshop.

We also publish Carolyn Lewis's The Novel – A Perfect Recipe, a writers' guide book packed full of tips and useful advice for anyone working on their first novel. The book is in stock at Blackwell's Bookshop, Park Street, Bristol or can be ordered online here.

Forthcoming titles from Silverwood Originals include Carolyn Lewis's second writers' guide book The Short Story – A Perfect Recipe, Tony Giles's Seeing the World My Way, a new collection of poetry from Mark Christmas The Abandoned Soldier – Reflections of War, and our new local interest title Bristol Lives by former journalist and broadcaster Maurice Fells.

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We'd be delighted to consider your work for publication as a SilverWood Original, but we do have firm submission criteria:

Please send an initial query email to assistant.silverwood [AT] btinternet.com which contains the following:

• The title of your book.
• The genre you feel your book fits into.
• The total word count of the finished manuscript.
• A one line pitch (which captures the book in a single sentence).
• One paragraph packed with information about your book and its intended market.
• A second paragraph telling us about you, and why you're the best person to write this book.
• The first 12–15 pages of your manuscript pasted into the body of your email (not as an attachment).
• Your name and contact details.

Please allow us a couple of weeks to get back to you.

Good luck!

Open Window

by Joyce Williams
A new collection of poetry which evokes Somerset and its people. Cover painting by Cath Read.

Corvette Racing – The GT1 Years

by Nigel S Dobbie
A comprehensive history of the GT1 Corvettes from 1999 to 2009.

Getting it Right at Redland High

by Redland High School for Girls
Everything a Year 7 girl needs to know when she starts at Redland High School.

Mining Memories

by Jenny Martin
A collection of poems marking the centenary of Cumbria's worst coal-mining disaster in Wellington Pit, Whitehaven in 1910.

North of Watford Gap

by John Brown
An amusing close up view of 'the North' from the laconic author of 'Which Way Next' and the acclaimed 'Return to Oz'.

The Abandoned Soldier

by Mark Christmas
A collection of contemporary war poetry published to support The Abandoned Soldier Project.

The Novel: A Perfect Recipe

by Carolyn Lewis
A SILVERWOOD ORIGINAL TITLE. All the tools you need to polish your novel to perfection.