Looking for a solid small publisher to pitch a YA haunted house novel to.
While I'm completely comfortable self publishing my work, my observation that YA (& MG, though I don't write that genre) is a tough market for indies. Kids still get books via book stores & libraries.
The story is THE HOUSE OF MANY DOORS
Langdon Rene Parker, Jr. was never any good at drawing until after his artist father disappeared. Now, Parker repeatedly creates perfect reproductions of a house he’s seen only in nightmares. Talking about ‘the house that swallowed his father’ freaks his mother out, leads to appointments with a shrink, and earns him the nickname “Ding-Dong” Parker.
When he is assigned to tutor Julia Epstein, a fellow high school student, Parker discovers
they have the house in common--her family owns a sketch of it drawn by his missing father.
Convinced by his recurrent dreams that his father is alive, Parker becomes increasingly obsessed with the house, pulling Julia into his quest to find it. What they discover drives them to challenge the house for his father’s life even as they risk disappearing behind one of its many doors.
I would be grateful for any leads or recommendations.
