Ivy Scar Press believes that genre fiction can be clever, emotionally satisfying, beautifully written and enormous fun — and that it should have a voice you recognise when you hear it.
We’re particularly drawn to a distinctive voice and sensibility — dry observation, irreverent humour, emotional honesty and those wonderfully peculiar turns of phrase that give a story its character. We value writing with personality: fiction that surprises, entertains and feels unmistakably itself.
Our list spans contemporary romantic comedy, romantasy and historical suspense.
Romance with something at stake.
We love characters who know their own minds, even when they don’t know quite what to do with their hearts. Give us wit, competence, emotional vulnerability and a relationship worth rooting for.
Fantasy that feels real.
Magic is more interesting when you can almost touch it. We look for richly imagined worlds, memorable characters and stories in which the fantastic is grounded in recognisably human wants, fears and follies.
Suspense that gets under your skin.
We like atmosphere you can feel, settings that matter, secrets waiting to be uncovered and danger lurking beneath the surface. Give us mysteries that keep you guessing, suspense that keeps you turning the pages, and the occasional touch of the uncanny or the downright unsettling. We’re drawn to stories where what lies beneath the surface matters just as much as what happens in plain sight.