The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submission (Fifth Edition)

About The Book:  This book focuses on the entire submission process from query letters to agents and publishers who accept direct submissions. This book should answer all of the questions you have about manuscript submission, as well as some of the questions you didn’t know you had.

We cover issues that trip up a lot of new authors including self-publishing, vanity publishers, copyright, and the importance of patience.

In this edition, we’ve added more information on research — so you can vet publishers and agents. We’ve also added a section on submitting nonfiction proposals, which generally requires a different submission format than fiction manuscripts.

This book is intended, in part, to be a companion to The 2022 Guide to Manuscript Publishers. It’s a book we update yearly, with reviews of over a hundred publishers that are open to unsolicited submissions. You can also search our manuscript publisher reviews online here.

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Notes from the Editor’s Desk: May 2025

Notes from the Editor’s Desk: May 2025

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Scavengers: Now Seeking Submissions

Scavengers: Now Seeking Submissions

Seeking flash, poetry, artwork, comics, experimental writing, and mixed-media.

How to Get Back Into Writing

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Guppy Books: Accepting Contest Submissions

Guppy Books: Accepting Contest Submissions

Guppy Books is a respected publisher of children’s fiction. Founded in 2019 by Bella Pearson, the books they have published have been finalists and winners of a number of awards. They also have excellent distribution. You can learn more about the company and their track record, here. They are based in the UK, and generally…