About Bogart Books

Bogart Books is both an independent publisher, primarily specializing in books featuring crime—real or imaginary—as its central focus.

Our staff consists of nine editors who rotate on a year-to-year basis. We strive to operate without a hierarchy: no one editor has any more authority than the other.

We aim to publish work that makes readers suspicious of everyone.

We aim to develop and cultivate significant relationships with our contributors and readers. We want to have our contributors over for dinner; we want to talk to our readers about the pieces they love—and the pieces they hate. We want to be an important part of their lives.

We actively seek out work by writers often excluded from traditional and/or academic literary spheres. We hold two reading periods per year: one for True Crime manuscripts and one for Crime Fiction submissions.