Baylor University Press strives to serve the academic community by producing works of excellent quality that integrate faith and understanding.  The company ENCOURAGES email submissions.

Breakaway Books publishes literary and thoughtful writing on sports — fiction, poetry, and essays on the athletic experience. We are interested in the emotional and metaphysical side of sports, the inner life of the athlete. We also celebrate the many ways sport can serve as muse for excellent writing — both serious and playful. If you wish to submit writing to us for possible publication, please send a query letter first. E-mail information@breakawaybooks.com, or send it by post to: Breakaway Books P.O. Box 24 Halcottsville, NY 12438 Note: we receive dozens of queries a day, and more excellent manuscripts than we could ever publish. If it takes us a long time to respond, please accept our apologies. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are encouraged.

Chelsea Green Publishing
Acquisitions Editor
PO Box 428
White River Junction, VT 05001

We prefer to receive query letters via email (to submissions@chelseagreen.com), and we ask that you send full proposals through the mail. When sending queries by email to Jonathan, enter your last name and the book title in the subject line. (For example: "Jones - Nature vs. Nurture - query")

A query letter should be one or two pages long and give an overview of your book’s topic, along with information about you as an author (who you are, why you are the right person to write this book, evidence that you will be able to complete a high-quality manuscript in a timely fashion).

Please don’t go to the expense of paying for Priority or Express mail services. It usually takes us several weeks to review incoming proposals, so you will not be saving any time. Submitted materials will only be returned if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

If we think that there is a reasonable chance that we might pursue your book, we will request a full proposal. A full proposal should include most or all of the following:

• A cover letter summarizing the book

• A preliminary table of contents

• An expanded table of contents with one- or two-paragraph summaries of each chapter

• Marketing research such as

  • descriptions of other books on the same or similar topic (with sales history if possible) and an explanation of why your book is different

  • any special sales potential (organizations that might want to buy large numbers of your book; specialty catalogs or stores that don’t usually sell books but might be interested in yours; events where attendees will be interested in your book)

  • your target audience (who they are, why they will be interested in your book. Be specific and realistic, for example, “readers of The Nation magazine” or “fans of Gertrude Stein.” Do not say things like “all women should like my book because I write about problems women face,” or “every American must read my book because we all face the danger of global warming together.” Also, please do not refer to “cultural creatives.” This mythical group is referenced in nearly one-third of the proposals we get, and carries no weight with us.)

• Biographical material about you (expanded from that in the query letter)

• Two sample chapters

Please feel free to print your materials single-spaced and double sided, to save paper.

DNA Press and Nartea Publishing are always looking for exciting book or journal proposals. We publish books about science in any form and for any audience. Whether it is an academic monograph, an exciting thriller, or a children's book – it should be always related to the advancement and spreading of scientific knowledge. If you think you can share your thoughts and experience related to science with a large audience then we are your publisher. We review every book proposal and manuscript and try to respond within 3 months. Due to the large amount of submissions sometimes we may miss this promised deadline. We use outside reviewers on some subjects. Mailing Address If you have an idea for a new book, game, or a journal, and would like to be contacted by a DNA Press Editor, please send your proposal or manuscript to: DNA Press (or Nartea Publishing) Acquisition Editor PO Box 572 Eagleville, PA 19408

Heritage Books, Inc.
65 East Main St.
Westminister, MD 21157 410-876-0371
You Can query by e-mail submission@heritagebooks.com

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If you would like to submit your proposal to W. W. Norton by e-mail, paste the text of your query letter and/or sample chapter into the body of the email message. Do not send attachments.

We cannot accept complete manuscripts via e-mail. Keep your proposal under six pages. If you are submitting poetry, again, try to send fewer than six poems.

(Please remember that we do not consider books from the following categories: juvenile or young adult, religious, occult or paranormal, genre fiction such as formula romances, sci-fi or westerns, arts and crafts, and inspirational poetry.)

If you are interested in writing a book for our college division, please send a letter of inquiry rather than a full proposal.

All e-mail submissions can be sent to manuscripts@wwnorton.com.

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Some authors are so determined to send an attachment they will attach a query letter of less than 300 words!  It only takes two keystrokes to put the query letter or book proposal INSIDE the letter whereas it can take fifteen or twenty to attach the file.  Do yourself a favor, download this book, AND read it.