Submissions
Send a rights opportunity with the facts attached.
MAQUINE reviews selected titles, backlists, and rights lists from publishers, agents, authors, and rightsholders with clear authority. The strongest submissions arrive with rights status, materials, publication context, and a defined partnership outcome.
Submission Packet
Useful submissions arrive with authority and materials.
MAQUINE reviews rights opportunities, not loose requests. The first packet should make ownership, availability, market signal, and desired outcome clear.
Rightsholder or authorized representative
Title, author, original publisher, and publication history
Current rights status by language, territory, and format
Synopsis, sample chapter, full manuscript status, and metadata
Sales, reviews, awards, press, classroom, or community signal
Desired outcome: representation, foreign edition strategy, partner introduction, or catalog review
What MAQUINE Declines
The house is selective so the rights desk stays useful.
Declining the wrong work is part of protecting the right work. These requests are outside the MAQUINE intake path.
Uncontrolled manuscripts without rights authority
Document translation jobs
Per-word localization requests
Titles with unclear ownership or unresolved third-party material
Open submissions without sample material or publication context
Review Route