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INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPT QUERIES
In the contact form above, please provide the following information:
- YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS
- WHAT COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN
- WORD COUNT
- GENRE
- TARGETED AUDIENCE (Be as specific as you can)
- BRIEF BLURB, LIKE WHAT WOULD BE ON THE BACK COVER (we don't want a long synopsis, just a paragraph or two is enough)
- INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM/MARKETING AND PROMOTING STRATEGIES (even unpublished authors should have this)
- LINK TO YOUR AUTHOR PAGE(S)
If you are submitting a children's picture book, let us know if you already have illustrations for it or not. We do not currently have an illustrator on staff, so can only consider works that either do not need illustrations, or already have illustrations done.
If we ask to see your manuscript, all of the info above must also be included at the top of the first page.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not interested in hearing proposals for manuscripts that are not yet written, especially if it is fiction. The time to seek a publisher is after you have finished and polished your manuscript - not when it is still only an idea.
In the contact form above, please provide the following information:
- YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS
- WHAT COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN
- WORD COUNT
- GENRE
- TARGETED AUDIENCE (Be as specific as you can)
- BRIEF BLURB, LIKE WHAT WOULD BE ON THE BACK COVER (we don't want a long synopsis, just a paragraph or two is enough)
- INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM/MARKETING AND PROMOTING STRATEGIES (even unpublished authors should have this)
- LINK TO YOUR AUTHOR PAGE(S)
If you are submitting a children's picture book, let us know if you already have illustrations for it or not. We do not currently have an illustrator on staff, so can only consider works that either do not need illustrations, or already have illustrations done.
If we ask to see your manuscript, all of the info above must also be included at the top of the first page.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not interested in hearing proposals for manuscripts that are not yet written, especially if it is fiction. The time to seek a publisher is after you have finished and polished your manuscript - not when it is still only an idea.
UPDATES
UPDATE 6/15/18: Lately we have been getting submissions that the authors have self-published already on Amazon and sometimes Createspace. We only want new, unpublished material. If you have published it on Amazon or Createspace, it is now published, and we are not going to be able to consider it for publication.
If you have any questions for us, the easiest way to get the answers is to fill out the form above and submit. We do our best to respond to all inquiries, but we are few and they are many, so please be patient. If you haven't heard from us in a few days, it's not that we don't care. It can sometimes take two weeks or more for us to catch up on all emails received.
Publication Submissions - Please review the submissions guidelines before submitting your work for consideration. The biggest reason for declining a manuscript is when an author doesn't follow these guidelines. Query first, then if we ask you to email the manuscript, make sure all of the info is at the top of the manuscript or we can't consider it. This is very important, and about 75% of submissions we get do not have the author's contact info at the top of the manuscript, so it instantly goes in the reject pile. Please don't let your manuscript make it into the rejection pile simply because you forgot to put your name and email at the top of it! The person who receives the initial query and asks you to send the manuscript for further review is not the same person who reviews the manuscript. The review team will not know how to contact you if you don't include your information inside your document when you send it.
A NOTE ABOUT BLOG SUBMISSIONS: We do not respond to blog submissions to confirm we received them. We do not email you back to let you know when it is posted on the blog, either. By submitting something for the blog, you are agreeing to have us edit or revise it as we see fit. However, that won't be necessary if it is a well-written piece. Preference is given to blog submissions that are well-written, free of major errors, and have all the information in them that we need. By this I mean your bio, website links, or whatever else you want posted along with your submission should be included if you want them to be posted because we will not email you asking for these things. Make it easy on us by not sending pictures. Text only is better unless you submit an HTML formatted blog post. That's even easier on us! We apologize for not being able to acknowledge receipt of blog submissions or notify you when they're posted, but we receive literally hundreds of emails daily, and if we are to focus on our book manuscripts, we simply cannot stretch ourselves too thin. Our policy is to add submissions to the blog only if they look like something we actually want to use, and it will get posted when we get around to it. You will not receive a confirmation that we received it, and will not receive an email letting you know when it is posted. Therefore we ask that you sign up for the RSS feed or follow us on Facebook or Twitter if you want to be able to see when your submission is posted. Answering emails takes one person 8-10 hours a day. That's how many we receive on a daily basis. Although we do want submissions for the blog, and are thankful to receive them, we don't have the time to personally respond and notify you that yours is being published. Thank you for your understanding on this matter.
If you're submitting a piece for our blog, no need to query first. Simply copy and paste it into the contact form. That saves time and eliminates unnecessary emails crowding our inbox. Thank you!
