Submissions
A reminder that we are a tiny press. This means you will not get an advance from us at this time. If you feel that you need an advance to accept a publishing contract, you should consider a larger, or more established, press.
Please understand that while we are small, we are selective.
It can take over a month before we respond to a query, depending on our current load.
Vampires are dead!
Please, no more vampire novels.
The market is saturated. The genre is getting stale. The ideas are getting recycled. We know we may be missing out on the next Twilight by saying this, but: Please no more vampire stories!
We prefer email
Please send a cover/query letter with the following attachments in doc, docx, rtf format. We may simply NOT READ anything in another format. PDF is not our prefered format as it tends to be bloated:
- The complete manuscript, or a sample of at least 50 pages
(we prefer entire manuscript when emailing), please also include a word count.
Note, while we accept entire manuscripts, we may not read it in its entirety--we will read at least 25 pages.
- A synopsis of your work. Chapter by chapter is acceptable
(and if we accept your manuscript, we will probably ask for
chapter by chapter).
Remember, a synopsis does NOT have the cliff hanger nor the "hook" to try and get you to read the entire manuscript. Keep the synopsis to less than 5 pages.
- The query letter itself should include word count, genre and/or target market.
A note on genre: We do not currently accept manuscripts whose main focus is a religious one. Spiritual is one thing, but an overt organized religious aspect is currently not our forte. We accept almost all popular fiction genres, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction.
Please mention former publications if applicable, if self published, some indication of sales is appropriate. We consider "AuthorHouse" to be self published.
All submissions must include complete contact information for the author and (if applicable) the author's agent (if applicable).
A note on size: A novel to us is over 60,000 words. On rare occassion we will accept over 40,000 words. Below 40,000 is a novella to us and as a tiny press, not feasible economically for print. If you are comfortable with eBook only, we may consider novellas.
A note on short stories: We consider short stories for our coffee break shorts, or eBook collections. For print, we will consider short stories as a collection, but collections must exceed 40,000 words and the editorial process is longer and not as detailed. We are open to linked novellas/short stories that add up to more than 40,000 words.
We encourage direct submissions, but agents are welcome.
Include full name, postal mailing address, telephone number with area code, and e-mail address.
To repeat: we do accept e-mail
attachments (many publishers and agents prefer all content in text of email, but we do not) in Word, RTF
(or PDF format if you must)--our
preference is Word (doc, docx) or RTF.
New Libri is a new company. Not surprisingly, that means we are
excited to build our community and we are interested in authors who
are early adopters and we embrace new authors and authors who for a
variety of reasons may want a small publisher.
As an author you may wonder if you should submit to us, versus a more established publishing house. We encourage you to do both--submit to us and submit to others. All of us at New Libri are, and have been, authors (and editors and entrepreneurs); we know how hard it is to break in. However, don't simply submit to us as part of a shotgun approach.
Why an independent, small, new, press is potentially advantageous (we assume you know all the disadvantages):
- We deal with new authors as our primary source.
- We are more hands on editing than most large houses.
- Our eBook process is not generic conversion: this is important if you have looked at the formatting of ebooks between Kindle, Nook, and iPad -- although this is becoming better as technology progresses.
- We are focusing on the community of authors we bring on board. Authors participate in the process and in shaping the company. This is true of most small publishing houses.
- Your contract is author friendly -- we offer a larger percentage than most publishing houses.
- All publishers expect the author to handle a lot of the marketing--we are just more upfront about it--we do expect you to do a lot of the marketing.
- You always retain the rights to your manuscript and if anything should happen to us, we give you the ebook and print layout formats to use.
- We actually read at least 25 pages of every submission.
We accept directly from author!
