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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
And How To Write a Query Letter
WE NEVER CONSIDER PAPER SUBMISSIONS. ALL INQUIRIES SHOULD BE VIA EMAIL!
We consider all genres except books for small children. Only books for Ages 12 and up, please. We are actively seeing romance, mystery, and non-fiction.
WE DO NOT CONSIDER UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS.
BUT we will be happy to look at a query letter at any time. That is just to cut down on inappropriate submissions. We are always open to good work. Write us a query letter and tell us about your project.
A QUERY LETTER should be about three paragraphs long:
PARA 1. Tell the title, genre, number of words, and a little about the story or content.
PARA 2. Tell why it will be interesting to readers and who would buy the book.
PARA 3. Tell a little about yourself and your writing experience
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For advice on manuscript preparations, scroll down!
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Have you published in the past
but now your book is out of print?
We can be a home to the homeless. If
you have previously published work that you'd like to see back in print,
AND If you have a PDF or .rtf file of your book,
we'd be happy to consider picking it up for publication
again.
Click here to download a .pdf copy of our e-book contract.
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We Have Expanded into Print
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We plan to move more of our titles into print throughout the next year. They are trade paperbacks printed on acid-free paper, with full color covers, and are, in every way, the same as a hardback book, but with soft covers. Print books will be published under our Cambridge Books, imprint, a division of Write Words, Inc.
We have entered into a printing relationship with Booksurge.com that lists our titles not only in their own catalog, but at Amazon.com, Target.com and many other distributor sites.
This is a big step for us and we are excited about it.
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Style Tips for ebooksonthe.net
The publishers at ebooksonthe.net
aim to produce books that are consistent in style and usage, just as paper
publishing houses utilize a house style for their printed products. So before you submit your manuscript for
review, please check it for the following:
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Manuscripts should be sent as attachment
files in .rtf format. Rich Text Format is a commonly
utilized format that converts easily from one text processing system to
another. Whatever
word processing program you use—Word, Word Perfect,
Ami-Pro, etc.—most will permit you to change the format of
your file to rich text, by using the "Save as" command under the File menu.
Please mark your scene breaks with
asterisks, not white space alone; white space is often lost during conversion to
html and other book formatting software.
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Manuscripts should be single spaced, without any extra lines
between paragraphs. Do not use a bunch of space bands at the beginning
of a paragraph to indicate a paragraph indent. In fact no indent is fine.Book manuscripts should be all in ONE long file—not
an individual file for each chapter—and
they should be formatted with no headers or footers in Times New Roman 12
point font. If you have illustrations, number them before the names in order of appearance, put them in separate .jpg files, and clearly
mark the line of text they should be near, by typing in the manuscript [Insert 1.jpg here].
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Pause indicators and how we would
like them formatted:
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Hyphens—use the hyphen key.
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Dashes—You type an em dash
by pressing the <alt> key and typing 0151 on the numeric keypad.
If you don't want to do this, use three hyphens, with
no space on either side
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Ellipses [. . .]—typed as three dots with
spaces between. These are created by holding the <alt> key down
and typing on the keypad 0133. There are three dots in an ellipsis, not
five, not seven and certainly not nine! When you use ellipses to indicate a pause and they come at
the end of a sentence or in a place where other punctuation might be
appropriate, the three ellipses dots should be preceded by the
appropriate punctuation, a period, comma, or even a question mark. Click
here for a quick tutorial on puctuation and ellipses.
Remember, do not be redundant. If it is stated in the narration that
there was a pause in conversation, there is no need to use an ellipsis.
Watch hyphenation. Be
a minimalist, and make sure each and every one of your hyphenations is
necessary.
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We prefer to see narrative written in
the past tense. Most narrative is written in
past tense, dialogue in present tense, and flashback in past perfect tense. If your whole book is
in present tense and if that was a conscious choice and if you feel STRONGLY
about it, we can discuss it. And if the entire book, written in the present
tense, is well-done, we won't mind at all. But we would still prefer to see the narrative in
past tense because, to speak frankly, often entire books written in the
present tense don't do themselves any favors and readers may too easily be confused between narrative and dialogue.
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Thoughts are typeset in plain text when a thought tag (David thought) is
used. Do not place quotation marks around thoughts. First person, direct thoughts, without a tag, are set in Italic
type, which is available in most word processors. If you cannot use italic
type, underline the copy to indicate it is to be set italic.
But if the Italics are there, they will be preserved in Rich Text.
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