For Authors

Publishing with Pluto

This page contains useful information for both prospective and contracted authors.

See the downloads box for documents relating to aspects of publishing with Pluto – from our open access publishing programme, to information on submitting a book proposal and working within our style guidelines.

Prospective Authors

Pluto is an independent, radical publisher of non-fiction books. If you have a proposal for a book you think would fit our list then we would love to hear from you.

Please note – as a publisher of non-fiction we will be unable to consider poetry collections or novels.

Before you submit a proposal, which you can do by emailing your proposal to submissions[at]plutobooks.com, please read our ‘Proposal Guidelines’ in the downloads box.

We will endeavour to respond to your email as soon as we can, but please be aware that due to the high level of unsolicited submissions that Pluto receives this might take up to two months.

Contracted Authors

If you have signed a contract with Pluto and begun work on your manuscript you should familiarise yourself with our house style, which is detailed in the ‘Style Guidelines’ document in the downloads box.

Our Editors

If your proposal is being considered, or you have signed a book contract with us, you will be in touch with one of our editors. They are:

David Castle, Editorial Director
davidc[at]plutobooks.com

David Shulman, Senior Commissioning Editor
davids[at]plutobooks.com

Nayiri Kendir, Commissioning Editor
nayiri[at]plutobooks.com

Ken Barlow, Associate Commissioning Editor
kenb[at]plutobooks.com

Anne Beech, Associate Commissioning Editor
beech[at]plutobooks.com

Jakob Horstmann, Associate Commissioning Editor
jakobh[at]plutobooks.com