The historical thriller runs on thriller pacing inside a past that has to hold up: wartime espionage, Vatican conspiracies, archaeological secrets, dual timelines that start a thread in 1943 and pull it into now. We’ve published across most of it.
Its problem is that it lives between shelves. There’s no single Amazon home the way historical mystery has one, so the book gets placed across historical fiction, espionage, conspiracy, and mystery, and each of those readers wants something different. The espionage reader wants tradecraft. The historical-fiction reader wants immersion and will forgive a slow first act. Deciding which one the book is really for, then building the cover, blurb, and ads around that, is most of the launch.
We know this shelf well. We work in Italy, we’ve published conclave and church-conspiracy thrillers, and Glenn Cooper’s Cal Donovan novels are the deepest vein in the catalogue.
The rest is our usual: we read and assess before fees come up, then proofing, formatting, cover, metadata, an ARC campaign through NetGalley and BookFunnel, and ads tested small before they scale. You keep your rights, royalties, and accounts. We charge a fee, and what we promise is the work, not the result.
Historical Thrillers from our Catalogue
The full catalogue is on our Titles page; pricing is in the FAQ. If you’re writing a historical thriller, we’d like to hear about it.
