Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A Imprints of Angry Robot Books to be Discontinued

I just read some sad news on the Strange Chemistry blog.  That YA imprint and Exhibit A, the mystery imprint, of Angry Robot Books are going to be discontinued.

Our YA imprint Strange Chemistry and our crime/mystery imprint Exhibit A have – due mainly to market saturation – unfortunately been unable to carve out their own niches with as much success.

We have therefore made the difficult decision to discontinue Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A, effective immediately, and no further titles will be published from these two imprints.

In happier news the same report mentioned that the SF/Fantasy imprint will be going from publishing 2 books a month to publishing 3.

ETA:  Kameron Hurley points out on her blog that Angry Robot's parent company, Osprey is up for sale, so maybe the move to publish 3 books a month is a way to clear up current contracts...

ETA2: News is hard to come by but my previous ETA may be incorrect.  The main information is behind a paywall so I'm not sure if it's Osprey selling itself (and thereby Angry Robot as well) or if Osprey is trying to sell the Angry Robot imprint.  I've heard rumours that support both theories. Anyone out there know and willing to share the answer?

Strange Chemistry Will Open for Unagented Submissions

Strange Chemistry is doing it again...

Strange Chemistry Unagented Submissions 2013

Okay, I know that some of you have been waiting for a long while for this announcement! Strange Chemistry is once again opening to unagented YA submissions. We opened to unagented submissions last year and, although a number of novels came close, none of them completely matched what we were looking for, but this has not deterred us from trying again!

This year the unagented submission period will last for SIX months. It is opening on May 1st and closing 31st October. This gives you half a year to prepare the best submission you are able. If your novel is not quite ready right now, please take the time to polish and give yourself the very best chance of publication.

We are also opening up to thrillers, crimes and contemporary YA as well as our customary SF and fantasy.

Your submission package:

– one page, containing your name, address, social media outlets and a one line pitch for your novel
– two pages, containing your two page synopsis of your novel
– 5 chapters of your novel, or 10,000 words (depending on the length of your chapters)

This is ALL we want to see.

Because we’re opening the submission period for longer and to a wider variety of novels, we will be incredibly strict with submissions. If you do not provide everything asked for above, your novel will be rejected. If you provide more than asked for above, your novel will be rejected.

There's a lot more information, including more details about submitting that they want you to read carefully and the submission email address on their website.