Please - email a query letter, brief synopsis and info about yourself, your writing experience and potential audience, if you have a manuscript you would like us to read.

Please - do not send unsolicited attachments as they will be deleted. If your query info sells the idea, then you will be asked to send the full manuscript.

Please - consider the rain forests first if you wish to send material by post.

Please - allow four weeks before following up your submission. Even if it is the best manuscript in the world, there's every chance that it won't get an immediate response.

If you are still keen enough to chance the Tonto slush pile, please note that your manuscript will only be returned if you include pre-paid postage.

Tonto is keen to build up a stable of seasoned biographers and journalists who have manuscripts to send, agents to send them via and are capable of handling ‘on spec’ commissions.

Tonto is interested in pop culture, music, true crime, biography and celebrity titles. Mass-market, quirky, left-of-centre... whether it is a comedy drinking guide, memoir or TV tie-in – if the story is worth hearing, then it is worth publishing.

Tonto does not publish books for children or poetry or science fiction.

Submissions, Tonto Books Ltd, The Spare Room, 71 Thornton Crescent, Blaydon, Tyne & Wear, NE21 4BA.

Email submissions: contact@tontobooks.com