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Book Submission Guidelines
For those who wish to submit a book for consideration, here is what we ask. Please submit your idea to us via email, if you can, we really do prefer email submissions. You can send your query to either Joe or Ardis and we would like to request the following:
For electronic submissions, please include the word "query" in the subject line of your email submission. If you do not include "query," there is a high probability it will be mistaken for spam by our spam filters and be deleted before we have a chance to even look at your work. Attach your sample chapters, summaries, and any other text to the original email as a Word or RTF file in a single document. If your work is infected with a virus, our virus software will automatically delete the email and the file immediately and we will have no record of receiving your email or files.
If you mail a hardcopy sample, please send no more than what we request. Please do not send work certified mail; we must return it unopened. Also, do not mail first class. It is considerably more economical to use "Media Mail."
DO NOT SEND YOUR ONLY COPY. We cannot and will not be responsible for items lost in transit. Please mail only photocopies or duplicates of your original work that do not have to be returned. We will not return items due to the high costs of postal fees.
When you submit your idea, please make certain the work is clean. It should reflect your very best writing and be free of grammatical errors, typos, homophonic or other problems. Remember, you are competing with many writers; to stand out from the crowd, you have to be one of the best.
What we would like to see in order to assess your project is:
- A synopsis or summary of the story.
- Two or three sample chapters.
- A statement regarding your target audience.
- Your ideas for your visions for your cover.
- A statement of your intentions and methods involving the marketing of your project.
- Your estimate of how well your book will sell and why.
- For non-fiction work, please submit your résumé or statement regarding your expertise in the subject matter.
Manuscript Mechanics
If able, use Microsoft Word as your word processing platform. If you do not have access to MS Word, please save your manuscript in an RTF file that can be read by Word. Grammar should be clean and reflect the writing style or voice of the story. If you are a new author with doubts about your manuscript, there are many editorial services available capable of grammar and spell checking, content checking, and more.
- Paper size - standard 8 1/2 x 11-inch page.
- Right margin 1 1/2 inches, all other margins 1 inch.
- Font - Courier or Courier New, 12 points.
- Indent paragraphs 1/2 inch.
Please do not try to format your manuscript "to look like a book" on your computer screen. This inserts code into the file that is sometimes difficult for us to remove which may cause us to abandon your project. Simply start typing your story at the beginning starting with the chapter number; you may start chapters on new pages.