Submission of works for evaluation
Information for Authors
Do you wish to submit a work for publication to KAKTOS Publications?
You can send us any type of work (novels, essays and studies, knowledge books, children’s books, poetry, etc.). The submission process is very simple:
1. You can send your work by email to info@kaktos.gr. Please include the following in the email:
- “Submission of work for publication” in the email subject, along with your full name.
- A summary of your work
- The complete work in electronic form.
- The genre (e.g., detective novel, study, etc.) and the word count of the complete work.
- Your biography, including any other published books you have.
- Your contact phone number.
2. Your work will be evaluated within 4 months. Any positive response will be sent by email. If you do not receive a response within this period, please consider that your work cannot be included in our publishing program.
3. Works submitted for evaluation are not returned to the author. When sending your work, ensure that you keep the original file stored. KAKTOS Publications is not responsible for any loss of your work.
4. KAKTOS Publications respects the intellectual property of authors. Therefore, we suggest you secure the copyright for your work with a notary before submitting it for evaluation.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKS TO BE EVALUATED
- We only evaluate adult works. We cannot publish works by minor authors.
- Your work must be complete. We do not evaluate excerpts or incomplete works at this stage.
- Children’s books must be accompanied by the required illustrations in their complete form in order to be evaluated and included in the publishing program.
Frequently Asked Questions about Submitting Works
Below are answers to the most common questions about submitting works for evaluation
You can submit a physical copy of your book to the address KAKTOS PUBLICATIONS – BOOKBAR BY KAKTOS – 39 Aiolou and Voreou, Athens, at our headquarters. ATTENTION: submitted works are not returned. Make sure to submit a copy and keep the original yourself. KAKTOS Publications is not responsible for any loss of your work.
Due to the large volume of proposals we receive, it is not possible to communicate with authors if their work cannot be included in our publishing program. If you have not received a response within 4 months of submission, consider that your work cannot be published by KAKTOS Publications.
For evaluation, the children’s book you submit must be accompanied by complete illustrations. KAKTOS Publications does not undertake the search for an illustrator nor the illustration process.
KAKTOS Publishing House was founded in 1974 by Odysseas Chatzopoulos. Between 1974 and 1991, it released approximately 2,800 books. During this period, it included the major series of science fiction, making the works of top authors in the genre known to the Greek public, such as Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and others.
Since 1991, along with other publications, KAKTOS Publications has primarily focused on publishing the series “Ancient Greek Literature – The Greeks,” which aims to publish translated and commented – for the first time in Greece and internationally – all the works of all authors of ancient Greece. This series was awarded in April 2000 by the University of Aix-en-Provence in France as one of the most important works of our time, and later, in October 2002, by the Pierides Foundation in Cyprus.
Today, KAKTOS Publications continues with the same passion to enrich the series of Ancient Greek Literature, which now numbers 820 volumes and is the largest in the world for its subject matter! The collection includes philosophy, history, theater, rhetoric, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, literature, lexicographical studies, anthologies, and every other significant ancient Greek work, from the beginnings of ancient Greek thought to the 6th century AD.
At the same time, we are expanding into different thematic categories with new Greek authors and translations of selected titles from abroad. Our aim is to offer books that will forever adorn the reader’s library.
