Independent publisher Angry Robot is to accept unsolicited novels for one month only next year.

The Osprey Group-owned sci fi publisher is to hold "Open Door Month" during March 2011, and is welcoming submissions from unrepresented authors.

Editor Lee Harris said, "We're delighted to be able to offer this opportunity to unpublished and unrepresented novelists. There are a lot of exciting authors out there, just waiting to be discovered, and we'd like to be able to help them kick-start their careers."

If successful, Angry Robot will consider furhter Open Door Months later in the year.

The Bookseller