“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” — Maggie Smith
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Our Mission
Bedazzled Ink is dedicated to general and literary fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books that celebrate the unique and under-represented voices of women and books about women that appeal to all readers.
Our History
The spark for Bedazzled Ink came in 2004 when we decided the only way to find books we like to read is to publish them ourselves. Our name came from a horse named Infinity Bedazzled.
To lure potential authors our way and to grow a readership, we decided to use a different sort a beastie—the Chimera. And because we hate to think inside boxes and tend to kick boxes and anything resembling boxes out of our way, we decided to use the Greek spelling for the beastie—Khimaira. With that, Khimairal Ink Magazine was born in 2005 and was guaranteed to be both memorable and completely unpronounceable. The last issue of Khimairal Ink came out in July 2011.
In 2015, Infinitely Bedazzled gave birth to Gus-Gus, leading to our GusGus Press, devoted to poetry, short stories, and novellas.
To lure potential authors our way and to grow a readership, we decided to use a different sort a beastie—the Chimera. And because we hate to think inside boxes and tend to kick boxes and anything resembling boxes out of our way, we decided to use the Greek spelling for the beastie—Khimaira. With that, Khimairal Ink Magazine was born in 2005 and was guaranteed to be both memorable and completely unpronounceable. The last issue of Khimairal Ink came out in July 2011.
In 2015, Infinitely Bedazzled gave birth to Gus-Gus, leading to our GusGus Press, devoted to poetry, short stories, and novellas.
Submissions
For most of our history, we've never had a "submit to us" page. We seemed to do quite well with the acquisition through serendipity model. During the few years we made it easy for authors to submit to us, we received way too many submissions and just didn't have the time or resources to handle the extra work load.
We're only open to queries at the moment. Your query must include:
That's it. If your book sounds interesting we'll ask for a full manuscript. The Subject line should be:
Query: [Title of Book]
As for what we're looking for, our past catalogue does not necessarily reflect the type of book we currently want to publish. We are currently accepting books by female or female-identified authors. We're especially seeking authors whose voices, cultures, and experiences are under-represented.
We are actively looking for for fiction and nonfiction young adult and children's books. We're especially interested in nonfiction titles in history, science, how-to, the arts, cultural and social issues, and arts and crafts. For fiction, we're open to speculative fiction, mystery, action/adventure, and sports.
We are always seeking biographies about women scientists, artists, musicians, writers, athletes, politicians, inventors, activists and women who have lived extraordinary lives. We want to help tear down the gender bias in the historical record and pull these amazing women out of obscurity and into their rightful place in history. These biographies can be for middle grade readers, young adults, or adults, but they all must be well researched without sounding scholarly, in-depth while still lively and entertaining.
At the moment, we're being very selective in the adult fiction and nonfiction categories.
Send your query to binksubs@gmail.com.
We're only open to queries at the moment. Your query must include:
- A sentence on why your book meets our mission statement and the basic requirement of all our books—a female protagonist. For nonfiction books, we want to fill categories that seem to be dominated by male authors with female authors.
- A brief synopsis. A synopsis, not a back cover teaser. This means a two to three paragraph summary of the plot from beginning to end. Remember books are about characters, not plots, so the summary must open with an introduction of the main character(s).
- A sentence or two about you.
That's it. If your book sounds interesting we'll ask for a full manuscript. The Subject line should be:
Query: [Title of Book]
As for what we're looking for, our past catalogue does not necessarily reflect the type of book we currently want to publish. We are currently accepting books by female or female-identified authors. We're especially seeking authors whose voices, cultures, and experiences are under-represented.
We are actively looking for for fiction and nonfiction young adult and children's books. We're especially interested in nonfiction titles in history, science, how-to, the arts, cultural and social issues, and arts and crafts. For fiction, we're open to speculative fiction, mystery, action/adventure, and sports.
We are always seeking biographies about women scientists, artists, musicians, writers, athletes, politicians, inventors, activists and women who have lived extraordinary lives. We want to help tear down the gender bias in the historical record and pull these amazing women out of obscurity and into their rightful place in history. These biographies can be for middle grade readers, young adults, or adults, but they all must be well researched without sounding scholarly, in-depth while still lively and entertaining.
At the moment, we're being very selective in the adult fiction and nonfiction categories.
Send your query to binksubs@gmail.com.
Our Staff
Claudia Wilde, owner and publisher, has over forty years’ experience as an educator. A lifelong bibliophile, she has a special interest in classic science fiction and fantasy, and children’s and young adult books. She idolizes Nancy Drew and enjoys sleuthing for earlier editions of the series to add to her collection.
C.A. Casey, managing editor, started life as a musician and then got her Masters of Library Science from Indiana University so she could make a living. She spent a quarter century working in academic libraries around the country, worked at Blackwell Book Services North America, and had a stint at a small publishing company before joining Bedazzled Ink in 2004. As a writer she has articles in library journals and in Strange Horizons, and stories in Aoife’s Kiss, The Lorelei Signal, Coyote Wild, Sorcerous Signal, The Fifth Di . . . and Beyond Centauri, plus two middle grade reader novels. She is also the author of a number of successful fantasy novels.
Liz Gibson, acquisitions editor and author liason, Also started life as a musician, but an injury prevented her from pursuing that, and so she spent a number of years at university before she figured out what she wanted to do when she grew up. She eventually ended up being a space systems engineer after pursuing physics and astrophysics. After she grew tired of being the only female engineer in the room, and constantly having to remind the others that she was not there to make coffee, bring donuts, and take minutes. So she left the industry, went back to graduate school, and became a director of educational technology at a large California university. Today, she is retired, and happily working with Claudia and Casey, bringing a technology background, a love of books with strong female characters, and a need to feel organized (note we didn't say "be" organized . . . ).
Sui Conrad, typesetter, is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in fine and graphic arts as well as a documentary photographer. Being a lover of books she gets to use her old school graphic design training in laying out manuscripts with modern technology. It sure beats counting characters and lines to figure out the types size and spacing. Besides this she is also a printmaker (intaglio) and documentary photographer and her work can be currently found at www.zhibit.org/wolfyrepress.
C.A. Casey, managing editor, started life as a musician and then got her Masters of Library Science from Indiana University so she could make a living. She spent a quarter century working in academic libraries around the country, worked at Blackwell Book Services North America, and had a stint at a small publishing company before joining Bedazzled Ink in 2004. As a writer she has articles in library journals and in Strange Horizons, and stories in Aoife’s Kiss, The Lorelei Signal, Coyote Wild, Sorcerous Signal, The Fifth Di . . . and Beyond Centauri, plus two middle grade reader novels. She is also the author of a number of successful fantasy novels.
Liz Gibson, acquisitions editor and author liason, Also started life as a musician, but an injury prevented her from pursuing that, and so she spent a number of years at university before she figured out what she wanted to do when she grew up. She eventually ended up being a space systems engineer after pursuing physics and astrophysics. After she grew tired of being the only female engineer in the room, and constantly having to remind the others that she was not there to make coffee, bring donuts, and take minutes. So she left the industry, went back to graduate school, and became a director of educational technology at a large California university. Today, she is retired, and happily working with Claudia and Casey, bringing a technology background, a love of books with strong female characters, and a need to feel organized (note we didn't say "be" organized . . . ).
Sui Conrad, typesetter, is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in fine and graphic arts as well as a documentary photographer. Being a lover of books she gets to use her old school graphic design training in laying out manuscripts with modern technology. It sure beats counting characters and lines to figure out the types size and spacing. Besides this she is also a printmaker (intaglio) and documentary photographer and her work can be currently found at www.zhibit.org/wolfyrepress.