Hello. This year for Christmas I am getting a laptop and I will begin to write a book. My question to you is, do you know any good publishers in ireland who would publish a 14-15 year old fiction book?I googles some but can not find any 'good' ones. Also if you know any agents? Thank you. I know I am young but you are never to young to write. I am not doing it because I want to be rich. I know it does not work like that. I am doing it be aide I love to write ;) my inspirations are Edgar Allen Poe, Tim Burton and Daneial Handler so I would be darkly humourous. So really Any tips at all and publishers? Thank you

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this is a list of ALL the publishers in Ireland. if what you're looking for isn't there, it most likely doesn't exist.

Write the novel first. You should not think about publishers and Literary Agents until later. http://www.agentquery.com/ This site is good at helping with queries and finding Literary Agents. Getting a Literary Agent is the first thing you should do after finishing the novel. Don't email them or write them until you are finished writing. The Literary Agent is on your side and helps you reach the right publisher for your book. Make sure the agent is legit. If they charge for Reading Fee they are not legit. DO NOT give them money. They get paid when they get you a publisher and get you published. They get a percentage usually 15 - 20% when you are published, each agent is different so check out the agents site. Look into the publisher and Literary Agents history. Where did the agent work prior to there current agency, there education, the novels they have found publishers for ect. Do your homework so to speak on the agent and agency. Hope you find the right agent but first write an awesome novel. Best wishes on your writing and finding representation. Hope this helps. - Cass

The list given by the first answer is missing at least one Irish publisher, Poolbeg Press: http://www.poolbeg.com/ Before you think about getting published, finish at least one book and edit it at least a couple of times. No publisher will agree to buy a book he can't sell yet - not until you've proven you can write something that will sell, anyway. Publishers don't care how old you are. They care whether you've written a book that the public is likely to pay for. The sort of book that most 14 or 15 year-olds can write is not likely to be such a book. You probably don't have enough experience of being human, nor enough perspective on it, to be able to write a publishable book. But don't let that stop you from trying. You need to write, on average, a million words for practice before you're capable of writing a book that a stranger might pay to read. The sooner you start, the sooner you'll finish. Spend some of your Christmas and/or birthday and/or confirmation money on the current edition of Writer's and Artist's Yearbook. This is a British directory, but covers Ireland too. I don't know if there's one specifically for Ireland; the country is probably too small to support its own. Don't rely on the Internet to find publishers or agents. It's OK for checking out people you've discovered in some other way, but I wouldn't recommend using it as a starting point. If you find a list, you don't know who put it together, or what their qualifications for compiling such a list are. If you find publishers' or agents' websites, it can be hard to tell whether they're genuine, until you've developed an instinct for the warning signs. There are a frightening number of scammers out there, who just want to separate you from your money and leave you crying into your Guinness. If you stick to the people who are listed in Writer's and Artist's, you might miss out a few new or small companies, but you can be sure you're dealing with reputable people. EDIT: agentquery.com is comprehensive but (last time I looked) only covers American and (possibly) Canadian agencies - damn near useless if you live elsewhere, unless you're already successful in your own country.