Conquest Publishing is a traditional publisher of all things emotional and gritty. Darker Romance is our favorite, but we are open to more!
CLOSED TO SUBS!
I've always been of the firm belief that what you put into this world is what you will get out of it. The smiles you see on the faces below have come from the immense work they have put into creating stories that move, entertain, and cause readers to question the world around
I had a call with an author yesterday to discuss possible publication, and it’s those conversations that give me a sense of purpose behind creating Conquest.
If you feel like your story doesn’t fit the industry standard, come see us. We don’t care what color, shape, genre, …
All right everyone... the time has come...
Conquest will be soft opening our summer/fall submission period starting this Thursday (7/25) with the
@Small_Pitch
event!
Get your hashtags ready! Our MSWL has been updated and our QueryTracker is greased and ready to go!
It’s
#PitDark
day!!! So excited to see the pitches today 😆
If your pitch is liked and you’d love to work with a small, traditional press who loves to publish good shit…check out our submission guidelines
What was the QueryManager damage for Conquest following
@Small_Pitch
?
16 fulls and 8 shortlisted 😬
I am so freaking excited to start reading these fulls in the next few weeks!!!
#SmallPitch
Whoever would have thought 10 months ago I would be having Zoom calls discussing European and Southeast Asian distribution channels for authors. Definitely not some small town girl from Arkansas who just wanted to see stories out in the world that moved people.
#happytears
I find it so funny how potential authors are blown away that I edit my authors' work for things that are not Conquest specific. Awards, self-publishing submissions, queries for agents, all of the above.
To me, it's a no-brainer...
Does that make me the odd publisher out? 🧐
Sometimes I wonder if I am doing the right thing by being in this industry... and then I have an author make me cry tears of pride.
So, I tell myself to suck it up and keep going. If not for me... always for them. 🥲
#indiepublishing
#WritingCommunity
#AuthorLife
🌟Welcome to the Conquest family
@ShermanArwyn
🌟
An anxious girl, on a mission to save her mother, discovers her world is full of monsters.
#HorrorCommunity
@KailenRenae
I'll jump on the comment wagon here:
I suggest to my authors all right for narrative and alright for dialogue. Since all right is more formally accurate while alright can flex with stylistic/informal scenarios.
I do agree with the two different meanings too :)
🌟ANNOUNCEMENT🌟
Welcome to the Conquest Family
@amrootwrites
!
FURYBORN meets CURIOUS TIDES with a dash of SAILOR MOON.
🔮 dark portal fantasy
❄️ elemental cultures/systems
🌈 diverse magic
⚔️ warring state politics
🔥 slow burn prohibited love
☠️ rivalry / deadly revenge
The growing community of indie authors that
@WildInkPub
and Conquest has created a home for in this industry has been the pinnacle of our 2023 publishing season. I can’t fan-girl enough over them.
I sure as hell hope 2024 is ready…because they are 😉❤️
🌟Welcome to Conquest
@cpbearden
and his horror/Southern Gothic novel, The Soil is Calling!!🌟
When Becca returns to her rural hometown, she hopes to make amends. Instead, the murderous cult hiding in the woods behind her childhood home is not what she expected to find.
Thanks to all of the wonderful, heart wrenching stories submitted during our open sub period, Conquest will be reviewing for a slight rebrand to be more inclusive to those emotionally charged stories that made us fall in love with reading all those years ago.
Be the lookout!
What's it like publishing your first book with a small press?
Funeral director-turned-author
@lindsayskeeling
shares about her debut experience with
@PublishConquest
. Thank you, Lindsay! 💜
Dig into her testimonial here:
One of the things I love about being an independent publisher is having the opportunity to still support the authors who chose a different publishing path. Conquest and
@WildInkPub
doors are ALWAYS open to questions or whatever services are needed for those to find their success.
🌟ANNOUNCEMENT🌟
We are very excited to welcome High Fantasy author,
@shawnamickbooks
, to the Conquest Family!
You can find The Cruelty of Magic online as A Collector's Edition before it is retracted for re-release next fall.
It's one thing to have an author honor Conquest by allowing us to publish their novel, but when they reach out and ask to publish A SECOND ONE... the feeling is unmatched.
Welcome our Conquest authors and their sophomore/junior novels ❤️
Sometimes I find myself questioning what I find more fulfilling; putting the absolutely phenomenal stories of the Conquest authors out into the world OR seeing the lifelong friendships they've built. Both things bring tears of happiness to my eyes 🥹🥰
#authorsoftwitter
I've tried to type a post no less than 5 times and I can't...but in summary:
2024 is going to be INSANE in the House of Conquest
#indiepublisher
#2024authors
In collaboration with Willow Trading SA, Conquest Publishing is ELATED to announce the exclusive, South Africa Edition of
@AriniVlot
's debut novel, Pretty Average 🇿🇦🍾🪷
Available APRIL 16, 2024 in South Africa where all books are sold...
🌟COVER REVEAL🌟
Release Date: October 15, 2024
Author:
@shawnamickbooks
Genre(s): Epic/High Fantasy
Trope: The Chosen One, Functional Magic
A warlord seeks the destruction of Runefall, and the end of magic, as a prophecy is met with doubt.
#epicfantasy
#runemagic
#dwarves
Of Stars and Lightning has been blowing up since its release back in August and we couldn't help but want to do something special for
@sosawnin
's readers...
This exclusive edition is packed full of bonus content and a preview of book two, Of Seas and Storms.
Sign up for our
Did someone say mage pirates and two women who hate to love one another? Sign me up!
Welcome to the tribe Alex Marco and her sapphic pirate fantasy, A Soul Made of Thunder. ⚡️🏴☠️🌈
🌟Welcome to the Conquest Family, Ashley Davis!🌟
After Liz gets kidnapped and held prisoner by a Russian terrorist, begging for death in a dirty cell, she never expected to be rescued by a masked soldier with a soft spot.
Now, forced to stay with her new captor, Riley, they
I cannot begin to explain how much I love these people. This photo is going to go for big bucks when this groups starts hitting those best seller’s lists 😍
🌟TODAY IS THE LAST DAY🌟
To get your queries in! At 5pm CST, Conquest Publishing will be closed to queries.
We have multiple outstanding contracts and a plethora of queries still yet to be reviewed. If you submitted to us and have not heard back yet, do not fret! ❤️
Who doesn't look a good paranormal romance where the lead singer of a rock band turns out to be a demon?
Welcome
@JulieKrohnAuthr
and her paranormal romance to the Conquest family!
If you're interested in knowing about me, check out my interview with the wonderful
@writingwithreed
where we talk about my journey so far.
Just a reminder that my debut is up for pre-order on Amazon! Pretty Average by Arini Vlotman 🍾
In honor of
#Pridemonth
, Conquest wanted to show a little
#love
to our authors who gave the world stories with beautiful
#lgbtq
representation ❤️🌈
*there may even be a secret 50% off coupon for
@kywriteswords
new sapphic fantasy*
Welcome to the Conquest family
@janegranville
!
Jane's literary fiction, Where Monsters Begin and
End, tells the intertwining stories of Nellie, a daughter
seeking the truth about her mother’s life and death, and her mother Ella, who is haunted by a painful past and faces
🌟Welcome to the Conquest family
@Krargyres
!!🌟
A husband is a necessary inconvenience to escape Lark's complicated home life, but when a faerie roots a rose in her flesh, people assume it's from another man.
Lark must convince the petty bastard to remove the blossom, but the
Pretty sure there was an author or two (or four) who we found through
#PitDark
back in the fall and it was one of the best decisions we made!
Can’t wait for the May rounds!
If you are participating in
#PitDark
drop a comment and I’ll try to reciprocate as much support as I can! Sometimes pitch events are during the school day so I don’t always see things right away. 🖤
Sometimes I think I've had too many concussions for choosing to start a traditional indie press... then I read edits from
@kywriteswords
and I just laugh, hunkering down in the comfort of my madness. They'll have to pry Conquest from my cold dead fingers at this point.👑🏳️🌈
Welcome a fellow
@SNHUmfa
graduate,
@Liter8ure
, to the
#Conquest
family! Her Dark Romantasy, The Daughter of the Veil, will launch December 2024.
SNHUMFA graduates united on this one!
Welcome to the Conquest team
@HJRamsay
!
Water Clock - N/A Fantasy Romance
Every gift is a curse in disguise.
A mortal girl and a god must work together as the unrelenting war between Athens and Sparta draws closer to Atlantean shores.
So I did a thing...🧵
As someone who struggled to find their place within the publishing industry as a young writer of genre-blended fiction, it felt very isolating. I don't want other to have to experience that.
🌟Welcome to the Conquest Family
@AnderleAuthor
🌟
Leeta and her brother Darren were sold to the circus by their mother, seeing and speaking to the dead tended to be unsettling. Now, Leeta discovers someone in the city is capturing, torturing, and murdering people who have
🌟COVER REVEAL🌟
Brooklyn Blatrix has gotten herself into something...
The Funeral Director's Wife by
@lindsayskeeling
will release this September!
*100% of the author's proceeds will be donated to the Oklahoma Homicide Survivors Support Group*
It was such an honor to be interviewed by BoldJourney on the topic of resilience. If you're curious to know more about myself or Conquest as a company, check it out! - Brittany
There may also be some familiar names
@AWild_Author
Availability to still grab an ARC of
@AriniVlot
contemporary, closed door, workplace romance and
@bysilverstories
fantasy, secret identity, romance are both open!
Go to the Conquest website and complete the form at the top of the books’ pages 🥰
Today’s excitement of New Release Tuesday, voice actor auditions, signed book deals, promotional and cover release planning, and conference/event scheduling has nearly made me black out from the surge of adrenaline.
#indiepublisher
#GetMeAMegaPint
I cannot begin to explain how EXCITED I am to welcome
@author_aschuh
to our rapidly growing family at Conquest. Her 1890s historical romance is exactly what my heart needed 😍❤️
Message from my 8-year-old from her bedroom:
Is supper almost done? I can kinda smell the noodles bo
I meant boiling
I am hungrier than a lion that has not been fed ever in its life
And that lion is 8000 years old
Gotta love it 🤦♀️
I am sooooo pumped to have S.E. Reed releasing her steampunk, Romeo & Juliet retelling, next summer with Conquest!
She is such a phenomenal writer and overall person in general ❤️
If you submitted a manuscript to Conquest or
@WildInkPub
during our open submission windows, do not fret! We have received nearly 100 manuscripts and our acquisition team is reading around the clock. Stay tuned for some amazing stories to come!
#indiepub
#opensub
#romancebooks
Got to meet
@LakeCtryPress
author Hazel Marie yesterday at a book signing. She was so wonderful and signed my book ☺️
Any
#WritingCommmunity
or
#AuthorsOfTwitter
out there who are having book signings around northeast Arkansas LET ME KNOW! I would love to support ❤️
Two households, both alike in dignity, collide in the chaos of civil unrest– igniting a forbidden romance between a pair of star-cross’d lovers.
For never was there a story of more darkness than that of Sephony and her Marcus.
CELEBRATION POST: (Link below)
My book, “The Cruelty of Magic” has more pre-orders now than it initially sold after release.
For those that don’t know, this story was initially self-published and then later acquired by Conquest.
#fantasyreads
#WriterCommunity
🧵 1/2
From award-winning author,
@writingwithreed
, comes the steampunk-inspired twist on Romeo & Juliet.
"Sephony was far too proud to let Marcus die alone. For never was a story of more darkness than of Sephony and her Marcus."
Welcome Brianne Cordova to the
#Conquest
family! Brianne will be releasing Cream and Punishing, book one of a stand-alone series, in the Spring of 2025!
With SOOOO many phenomenal artists and designers out there who have a passion to create art, I just don’t understand. I get that stock photos are used at times and massaged, but even as a small press we have a validation process to vet authenticity. Come on guys. Do better.
From someone who had international success with a big 5 publisher on their debut novel to signing with an indie for their second… It’s a great story for the
#writersoftwitter
A huge welcome to romance author
@Jess_Salina
to the Conquest Family! Jessica's cozy, hate to love romance, Stuck on the Slopes, will hit the shelves in the spring of 2025!
About 2 years ago I had a HUGE craving for a dark, Jinn inspired fantasy novel. There’s not just a whole lot of variety for that out currently. Then, open subs happened in the fall, and my wish came true 😄
Developmental edits for
@sosawnin
’s Of Stars and Lightning has begun!!
🎇 COVER REVEAL TIME! 🎇
As battles to unmask a criminal unfold, can Rosie keep her livelihood intact while attempting to save the man she loves from himself?
Fall into this
#contemporaryromance
by author
@kelliewallace85
this coming January!
Sign up for the Conquest
Writing rule of thumb: Show don’t tell is basically your characters REACTing to the ACTIONS around them.
The wind knocks Jenny’s book into the lake, her quiet day now ruined.
Just got a phone call from Brittany at
@PublishConquest
. She said... I have a dark cover that needs.....
Me: YES!
Her: I knew you would.
Me: Dark? Say no more. Send me the synopsis.
Or trope your story fits into, as long as it’s a story someone can read and walk away with more to think about, to us, those stories deserve to be out in the world.