You can submit your manuscript electronically using this form or you can even send them a hardcopy to the address mentioned on this page. Manuscripts will often go through a 2-round filtering process and if your story clears the first round, it will then be judged on tone, character, plot and style. They are seeking original, clear plots that revolve around fantasy and science. If you are a first time writer, you will be in good hands with Baen Books as they may be successful as huge publishers but their work ethos remains of a small dedicated team of people who love connecting readers with great authors. It is a popular and established science and fantasy fiction publisher. That experience is just another argument to put your hook and everything else into that first page, so when they restrict your sample it will still entice the reader.If you’ve written a book belonging to the fantasy genre, or one of its sub-genres such as urban fantasy, and you want to make a submission directly to a publishing house, a list of fantasy publishers would come in handy.īelow you will find 21 top fantasy publishers accepting unsolicited manuscripts.įormed in 1983, Baen Books is in North Carolina. It was still less than 10 percent-but it did include the entire first chapter which is critical to the reader.

1% of scattered pieces is too abominably short.Īs it was I had to instruct createspace to give 80% of the novel in sample form to get a large enough contiguous set of pages at the beginning of the novel. So when I say 10 percent I mean 10 percent contiguous from the start of the story.

My own standard is interesting in the sense that my novel, when published through createspace, was given 10 percent however it turns out that createspace is unable to give 10 percent contiguous pages from the beginning and it is something like 10 1% random chunks. However since it's a novella and those have to to be written tightly 10 percent should be enough. Sometimes at the end of 10 percent I'm still on the fence-however that might be the deal breaker since 10 percent is the usual average. If it is less than 10 percent of the total pages and I'm not sure if I would continue to read then at that point the sample is too short.

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