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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Saqi Books: Seeking Fiction & Nonfiction Manuscript Queries

Saqi Books: Seeking Fiction & Nonfiction Manuscript Queries

Saqi Books was founded in London in 1983. The roots of Saqi Books are in Lebanon and they focus on publishing trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa written by authors based all around the world. They publish around twenty titles a year. They have been awarded the British Book Industry…

Biteback Publishing: Accepting Book Proposals

Biteback Publishing: Accepting Book Proposals

Biteback Publishing is based in London, England, and is focused on publishing work on political and current affairs titles. They also publish history, memoir, espionage, sport and general nonfiction, and they do not publish fiction of any kind. You can get a good feel for what they are currently publishing by seeing their new releases…

Redleaf Press

Redleaf Press

The motto for Redleaf Press is “Exceptional Resources for Early Childhood Professionals”. Established in 1973, they are a nonprofit publisher of curriculum, management, and business resources for early childhood professionals. They are not interested in any work outside of the context of their focus. They are a division of Think Small, a nonprofit organization. Proceeds…

Great Place Books: Accepting Manuscript Queries

Great Place Books: Accepting Manuscript Queries

This small press publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and work in translation, at the rate of about one to two books per year. They state: “Our mission is to be a home for rigorous, weird, beautiful books—and their readers. These books are imperiled by the stratification and commercialization of publishing. Against the grain of the…