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General Submission Guidelines

Our preference in evaluating project ideas and manipulating manuscripts is by way of electronic submission in Microsoft Word format.  In submitting manuscripts, sample chapters or the entire manuscript may be emailed to either joe.clark@bluewaterpress.com or aclark@bluewaterpress.com  as a Word attachment to a cover letter submitted by e-mail.

Some writers may prefer to send a hard copy submission.  While we do not discourage this practice, we also do not encourage paper submissions.  It is far easier to manage electronic files than the old fashioned paper files.  If you decide you would like to send your proposal in paper, please limit your submission to your cover letter, a table of contents, and two or three sample chapters.

Microsoft Word is our preferred word processing software.  Please do not submit PDF files.  If you are working with WordPerfect or some other system, please save your work as an rtf file which can be read by our computers.

When constructing your manuscript, please use the standard Microsoft Word margins and a ½ inch first line indent.  Please do not try to make your manuscript “look like a book” by adding page numbers or anything else within the text.  Simply start writing, use carriage returns for new paragraphs, and write to the end.

This is an important point: your submission must be nearly flawless.  If you send a package with misspelled words, grammatical mistakes, or poor manuscript mechanics, there’s a fairly high chance your project will not be picked up for publication.  You must understand that business is like electricity; the process will take the path of least resistance.  In other words, working with a well written manuscript in electronic format is far easier than trying to process hard copy on paper.

For more information and hints, please read the other articles on the previous page, Suggestions and Other Information about the Writing Life. More information concerning book submissions may be found on our Book Submission Guidelines page.