Submission Window: November 1st, 2025 to February 28th, 2026
Payment: $10, royalties, and a contributor’s copy for US authors
Theme: Murder mysteries, detective noir, cozy, and humorous
Submission Period: November 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026
Theme: Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors III – we’re searching for the murder mysteries, detectives noir, cozy, and humorous. This is our Mystery anthology and if you think it comes close to the genre, give us a shot.
There is no restriction as to how you incorporate the theme into your story. We encourage you to weave the theme into an engaging story with well-developed characters and deep emotion. Suspense and thrillers are encouraged over horror for this anthology, but a great horror story may rise to the top.
Stories that contain infanticide, rape, or gratuitous gore will not be accepted.
Submission Period: November 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026
Submissions: No AI, 1 per author; no reprints, no simultaneous submissions;
Submission Cost: Free
Word Limit: 2,000 to 7,000 words
Submission Guidelines: Anonymous submission with no author name in document; 12 pt Times or Arial; .Doc or .Docx; double-space; first line indent; no tabs used.
Genres: Mystery with accepted sub-genres of Fantasy, Sci-Fi as well
Anticipated Pay: Royalty share of D2D sales and $10.00
For D2D royalty share, each collaborator will receive a share, including the publisher, for the sales on the D2D platform. Only sales through D2D retailers are shared. An account with Draft 2 Digital will be required to provide royalty share payments.
Timeline Projections:
Submissions close: February 2026
Review: March 2026
Acceptance / Rejection: April 2026
Edits: May 2026
Production: June 2026
Published: July 2026
Upon acceptance, the author is expected to work with the editor on at least one round of revisions in MSWord. Inkd Publishing LLC will hold first publication rights for four months after publication and the continuing non-exclusive right to reproduce the work in Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors III.
Authors must provide assurance that their story submission is an original, previously unpublished work, is not currently under consideration elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted for publication elsewhere prior to receiving notification that it has not been accepted for inclusion in the anthology
US authors will also receive one complimentary copy of the printed anthology, other shipping destinations will depend on shipping costs and are at the sole discretion of Inkd Pub.
Via: Inkd Publications.
