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The 2019 Guide to Manuscript Publishers
The 2019 Guide to Manuscript Publishers features book publishers that accept submissions directly from writers. No agent or previous publishing experience is required. Featured in the book this year, in addition to the publisher reviews, is a guide to the manuscript submission process, as well as a glossary of common publishing terms.
The book is divided into the following non-fiction publishers, literary fiction publishers, multi-genre publishers, science fiction and fantasy publishers, mystery publishers, children and young-adult book publishers, Christian publishers, and romance publishers.
When reading this guide, it is important to know that every publisher that we review must meet a number of standards.
All of the publishers must be open to any author regardless of their nationality and country of residence. Unfortunately, this eliminates a number of quality Canadian and Australian publishers.
All of the publishers must be traditional publishers, which means that they must pay their writers for their work. It also means that they must never charge their writers anything to publish their books. This eliminates all vanity publishers including companies that claim to be traditional publishers but charge their writers extra for cover design, editing, or other services. If a publisher tries to make you pay them, they are a vanity publisher.
All of the publishers we review must be open to submissions without an agent at some point in the year. It is not that we don’t like agents, some are great, some are not. There are definitely pros and cons to having an agent, and we leave that decision up to you.
All of the publishing companies we review are open to agented submissions as well. Although a number of publishers—particularly in the science fiction genre—prefer that you do not have one.
I truly hope this book gives you a more grounded view of the traditional publishing industry, but even more than that, I hope this book helps you find the right publisher for your manuscript.
– Emily Harstone
The book is divided into the following non-fiction publishers, literary fiction publishers, multi-genre publishers, science fiction and fantasy publishers, mystery publishers, children and young-adult book publishers, Christian publishers, and romance publishers.
When reading this guide, it is important to know that every publisher that we review must meet a number of standards.
All of the publishers must be open to any author regardless of their nationality and country of residence. Unfortunately, this eliminates a number of quality Canadian and Australian publishers.
All of the publishers must be traditional publishers, which means that they must pay their writers for their work. It also means that they must never charge their writers anything to publish their books. This eliminates all vanity publishers including companies that claim to be traditional publishers but charge their writers extra for cover design, editing, or other services. If a publisher tries to make you pay them, they are a vanity publisher.
All of the publishers we review must be open to submissions without an agent at some point in the year. It is not that we don’t like agents, some are great, some are not. There are definitely pros and cons to having an agent, and we leave that decision up to you.
All of the publishing companies we review are open to agented submissions as well. Although a number of publishers—particularly in the science fiction genre—prefer that you do not have one.
I truly hope this book gives you a more grounded view of the traditional publishing industry, but even more than that, I hope this book helps you find the right publisher for your manuscript.
– Emily Harstone
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 24, 2019
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June 1, 2019
An invaluable resource. All Emily’s books helping writers are great - clear, concise, easy to use - a fantastic resource and I can’t thank her enough for these guide books.
June 1, 2019
I found this book exceptionally helpful finding publishers for my work. All authors should read this book.
June 1, 2019
A must read if you’re looking to get published and want to make sure you’re prepared, as well as your work, and are submitting to legitimate markets.
June 1, 2019
This is a very useful book if you are a writer and want to get your work published. The book lists 170+ publishers of various genres, shows what kind of stuff they publish and gives you a link to the site. The entries include some note on how to submit and even tips on how they want the submission. Very handy.
June 1, 2019
It is a very helpful guide. It is well written and one can easily see that its writers do care about the rest of us who are striving to see our works-souls, published. Thank you for giving us the chance to download it for free.
June 1, 2019
Everything an author needs to submitting to traditional publishing houses without an agent. These publishing houses are looking for great stories and do not discriminate those authors that are not represented. Once again, AuthorsPublishing produces a great guide for authors.
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June 1, 2019Great tool needed. Thanks.
June 1, 2019
Comprehensive- up to date- easy to follow. A good resource for unpublished authors.
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June 2, 2019
best thing ever happened to a writer, thank you for the hard work to get all those infornation and sharing thru.
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