create great with the datura press
For Literary Agents, Scouts & Media Professionals
We welcome enquiries from the industry regarding rights representation, co-agency, foreign editions, and media adaptation.
Datura Press exists to champion strange beauty and singular voices.
We publish titles that blur the line between myth and memory, the gothic and the political, the literary and the spellbound. Each book in our growing catalogue is built for longevity and layered reading—ideal for translation, screen, and audio expansion.
If you are an agent, scout, or creative producer interested in our list, we’d love to hear from you.
We are open to the following:
Rights partnerships (foreign, translation, screen, audio)
Scouting opportunities
Co-agency representation
Festival, prize, and residency nominations
We are particularly interested in developing relationships with agents who share our values: editorial depth, author care, and boundary-pushing imagination.
Commercial potential
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Narcisa Before Narcisa
Genre: Gothic Literary Fantasy / Dark Feminist Fable
Format: Novel, ongoing series
Logline:
In a haunted corner of 18th-century Bukovina, a reluctant teenage witch becomes a revolutionary icon, battling corruption, ancestral trauma, and the myth she’s becoming.
Market Potential:
YA–Adult crossover with strong appeal to fans of The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), and His Dark Materials
High visual potential for prestige streaming (limited or serialised), animation, or graphic novel
Strong hooks for audiobook market: multiple narrators, immersive myth-world, dark humour
Sales Hooks:
Female-led, genre-bending with political edge
Taps into current interest in folk horror, witchcraft, and historical reimaginings
Potential for merchandising (runes, maps, tarot) and live events
Status: Approaching draft one of first volume
Excerpts available.
Rights available: World excl. UK print / All other rights
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Walker Awake
Genre: Metaphysical Thriller / Literary Noir
Format: Standalone novel
Logline:
When a man wakes with no memory only the badge of powerful and enigmatic agency and a brutal murder to solve in a 1950s America we would not comeplelty recognise.
Market Potential:
Ideal for audiobook with sound design / multi-voice narration
Rich potential for arthouse film or graphic novella (visual metaphors, fragmented timeline, liminal spaces)
Huge potential as a prestige streaming series
Think Twin Peaks meets Justified by way of Angel Heart
Sales Hooks:
Surreal, philosophical, and emotionally resonant
Speaks to themes of masculinity, memory, and self-erasure—ripe for festival circuit or speculative podcast drama
Perfect for graphic storytelling formats
Status: Part one published via Amazon, reversion rights in negotiation.
First full volume complete in draft.
Rights available: All excl. first English-language paperback
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The Death at the Door
Genre: Gaslamp Occult Mystery / Supernatural Procedural
Format: Episodic novella series
Logline:
In this first instalment of the series Annotated Casebooks of Professor Manton Marble, a melancholic occult scholar and his dashing aristocratic companion investigate the death of Marble’s wife—murdered by a vampire revolutionary cell bent on England’s destruction. Each case in the series will draw them deeper into the war between science, politics, and the unknowable.
Market Potential:
High-concept audio drama potential (BBC / Audible / Spotify Originals)
Can scale into a graphic novel series, live-action serial, or tabletop RPG tie-in
Comparable to The Sandman, Carnacki, Penny Dreadful, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Sales Hooks:
Highly episodic with a strong mythology spine—perfect for adaptation
Built-in tension between rational science and gothic horror
Expands to a broader world of vampires, anarchists, secret societies, and alternative European history
Status: Full draft of volume one complete, excerpt available
Rights available: All
