Written by Emily Harstone February 17th, 2014

Prism Books: Open to Manuscript Submissions

Important: Read This Before Submitting Your Manuscript

Seven common manuscript submissions mistakes that are very easy to avoid.

Updated March 19th, 2020

Prism Books used to be an independent press but was recently acquired by Pelican Book Group, so you submit to them using the same website.

Prism is a Christian company, and while they do not only publish Christian books and their authors do not need to be Christians, they are not interested in publishing books that promote other religions beside Christianity. They are also not interested in hate literature, or manuscripts that portray rape or violence in a positive light. They describe the two categories of books they publish as Christian and “clean and wholesome”

Prism offers new authors a standard contract that gives authors 40% royalties. Many authors who have published work with them speak highly of Prism and the way they treat their authors.

Prism is currently looking for works of fiction, young adult novels, romance novels, inspirational novels, and Christian fiction.

Submissions for all publications should be formatted as a .doc or .rtf file. The font should be 12 points New Times Roman. They do not want page numbers or headers and footers.

To learn more about Prism Books please visit their submission guidelines here.

 

 

 

 

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