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Full details Turner Publishing is accepting submissions of manuscripts and/or proposals. Submissions can be made by agents or authors directly. To submit material for consideration, please send the material to: submissions@turnerpublishing.com We receive a large number of submissions and because of that please note the following terms and conditions apply when making a submission. By making a submission you agree to these terms and conditions: Turner is under no obligation to provide any communication related to the status of a submission. If Turner is interested in publishing the submission, we will contact you. Turner is under no obligation to return any materials submitted. So please do not send anything that you want returned.

Full details SHANTI ARTS PUBLISHING is devoted to producing beautiful and compelling books related to nature, art, and spirit .  View our catalog and you will see we publish books that cover a wide variety of topics and interests: nature, art, spirituality, family issues, memoir, travel, aging, and more. We publish both poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction. We do not produce coffee-table books, and at the moment we are not accepting novels. Most of our books are distributed both in print and digital editions.  We work closely with our authors and artists, both on book production and marketing. The details: 1. There is no submission deadline. We review submissions as they come in. 2. We strongly encourage you to submit online. Please do not send submissions by email unless you've been asked to do so; we will not read them. Online submissions must be done through Submittable ; the link may be found at the bottom of this page. 3. We will email you when ...

Full details We are happy to receive submissions directly from authors. If you have a finished manuscript in the following genres, please get in touch and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We are looking for full-length Crime Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Women’s Fiction, Romantic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action and Adventure (Military, Naval and Aviation Fiction) and History. At the moment we are not looking to publish any Short Stories/Novellas, Children’s Fiction, YA, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Erotic Fiction or Poetry. Please submit using the following guidelines: Include a one-page covering letter with a brief author bio, a short, snappy blurb and a bit of information about your book. Please include the word count. Include a synopsis of about 1000 words detailing the full plot of your book (including all the spoilers!). Feel free to use bullet points. Include the first 10,000 words of your manuscript, with a title page included. Please ...

Full details  Polis Books is an independent publishing company actively seeking new and established authors for our growing list. We are currently acquiring titles in the genres listed on the web site. Please keep in mind that while Polis Books does accept unsolicited submissions, due to the incredibly high volume of unsolicited material we receive, we will only respond to queries if we have interest in the submission. If you have not received a response to your query in 12 weeks you can assume we have passed on it. We know how much time and effort goes into every manuscript, and we sincerely apologize that we cannot reply to every submission individually.  Please keep in mind that we do not publish stand-alone novellas or short stories, and novel-length submissions should generally be a minimum of 60,000 words. We will very rarely consider titles under that length. Note: we do not respond to emails that are not submissions . If you want to know whether w...

Full details Fiction & Nonfiction Submissions We are pleased to receive query letters by USPS or via email from authors and literary agents. We publish literary novels and short story collections, creative nonfiction, memoir, essays, biography, literary criticism, books on contemporary issues (multicultural, feminist, LGBTQI+), Young Adult novels, and literary and multicultural anthologies that are assigned in secondary and university classrooms.  Most of all, we are looking for the fresh voice, a clear point of view, the well-written work that will endure. We are pleased to publish debut books and to continue publishing the authors we take on. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, fantasy, science fiction, thrillers), self-help, textbooks, or children's books. Poetry Submissions We have a longstanding commitment to publishing extraordinary contemporary poetry. Due to our commitment to the poets we already publish, we are limited in our ability to add new col...

Full details Open Books strives to publish high quality fiction and non-fiction. We like to see literary and contemporary fiction and serious, scholarly non-fiction. We love cutting-edge, out-of-this-world, brainy fiction and political, social, ecological and controversial non-fiction. We are generally not interested in romance, horror or paranormal unless it has a very original or literary spin, nor are we interested in pop non-fiction such as self-help, diet books or pseudo psychology. For fiction submissions, please include a cover letter with your contact information, a one-page synopsis, an author bio, the first three chapters of your manuscript and a basic author marketing strategy.  For non-fiction submissions, please include a cover letter with your contact information, a detailed outline of your project, an author bio, a sample of your writing and a basic author marketing strategy. A one-page query is acceptable and even encouraged before submi...

Full details Library Tales Publishing is an independent book publishing company  founded in 2011. The company is focused on publishing, marketing and distributing self-help, memoirs and niche fiction books by qualified and talented authors. Our list of authors includes David Friedman, Arje Shaw, Catherine Holmes, Liz Ferro, David Michael Slater, Frank Foster, Eric Sage, Rich Wickliffe, Jim Hamilton, among others. Our authors and books have been featured in national print, TV, and radio media, including  Today with Kathie Lee and Hoda , Publishers Weekly, Fox News, Book TV Shows, The New York Review of Books, and others. ​ Library Tales Publishing was founded during the peak of the digital publishing revolution and one of its very first releases was a memoir on Kindle. Today, Library Tales Publishing has domestic and international distribution, film rights, and sales representation throughout the world and is heavily invested in digital a...