For Authors

Thank you for contacting us about carrying your book. While we make an effort to evaluate every book submitted to us for consideration, please understand that we receive a substantial volume of requests and may not be able to personally respond to every one of them. We are proud to have a small shop, and our size neccessitates a serious consideration and careful curation of every single title we choose to carry. Even the largest bookstores cannot carry every published title. Each book must fit our store’s philosophy and speak to the interests of the people we serve. Our reason for being is to satisfy and support the curiosity, intellectual life, and vibrancy of our community. Knowing our bookshop is the most important prerequisite to requesting the stocking of your book (it helps to be a customer!).

For more helpful tips on how to get your book in bookstores, read this 10 Step Guide by the American Booksellers Association.

Stocking Your Book

Below are the steps we request you take in order to formally request that we stock your title, but we first request that you make the following considerations on our behalf:

• The book should be available for us to order through Ingram or other established bookstore wholesale distribution channels, and at industry standard trade discounts.
• The book should be professionally edited, proofed, formatted, designed, and should already be published.
• The content should be a good fit for our store – both Underground Books and Hills & Hamlets Bookshop have carefully selected books intended to cultivate a certain atmosphere – so sending books in genres that we do not carry will only waste your time and ours.
• It should be priced reasonably and comparably to other similar titles and should have the title and author’s name on the spine.
• Please note that we prefer not to stock CreateSpace or other Amazon published titles.

If after considering the points above, you would like us to consider stocking your books, then please send or drop off a free (non-returnable) review copy of the book for us or our staff to consider.

We receive a high volume of requests to stock self-published or small press titles. Due to the high volume of requests, and the associated bookkeeping challenges of treating dozens of individual authors as their own vendor-distributors, we now only consider titles that are available through the major bookstore distribution channels such as Ingram.

For books we do agree to stock, we request that you list our store name, website, and social media on the author’s website and social media pages.

Author Event Requests

UPDATE: WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING EVENT REQUESTS! PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER.

Due to the large volume of event requests we receive and the extra time and expense involved, we unfortunately must reject the majority of event requests.

Thank you so much for sharing your work with us!