Manuscript Submission

Please follow these instructions closely in submitting your book manuscript to us.

This will ensure that your manuscript will be routed to the appropriate review editor. Any deviation from this format may not be accepted and will slow down your response time.

Please submit complete manuscripts only.

All your information is carefully guarded by the assigned editor, and will be kept confidential.

Preparation of Document

You may submit your manuscript “as is” with your current fonts, line spacing, etc., as long as it is saved in a .txt (text) or .doc (MS Word) or .rtf (rich text file) format, and not sent as a zipped file. Please do not send in other programs or formats such as Word Perfect, etc.

Copyright Protection

All writers worry about protecting their work. Rest assured that we will be handling your manuscript submission responsibly and with confidentiality. If we do not accept your book for publishing, we will destroy your submission from our databases.

To add yet another level of protection, although not necessary, place a copyright notice (copyright 2006, your first and last name) at the bottom of your last page. Should we accept your book for publishing, we will assist you in registering and filing your copyright with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress if you have not already done so.

Submission Information

Please complete your responses to the following as a preface at the beginning of your manuscript file:

Author’s Name:

Proposed Book Title:

Daytime Phone:

E-mail address:

Physical Address:

Author’s Age:

Manuscript Word Count:

(Authors, please note that we do not accept any of the following types of books: cookbooks, coffee table books, poetry, erotica, hate or books full of obscenities, children’s books with color illustrations, [young adult literature with a few black and white illustrations, like those in the Harry Potter books, for example, are OK], art, photo, or design books.)

Please state which of the following categories apply to your book:

·         Fiction or Non-fiction?

·      Academic, Biography, Business, Comedy/Satire, Fantasy, Historical, How-To, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Self-Help, Spiritual, Thriller, Young Adult, Other?

Who referred you to American Book Publishing?

Describe or summarize your proposed book product in about three paragraphs.

What is the anticipated market for your book?

How would you promote your book to this target audience? As a publisher, we are looking for books that will be profitable not only for us but also for the author.

In what other ways will you help promote the book? Will it appeal outside the usual trade bookstore channels?

Are there competing titles and other books currently on the market on your same or a similar topic? How and why is your book different? Does your proposed book fill a need or a niche presently open?

Please identify the competition and tell us how your book will surpass that competition because of the added material or new slant it offers.

Regarding your author qualifications, what makes you the right person to write this book?

Please tell us about your career experience and educational credentials, as well as your experience in the area of your subject and with the media—for example, media article/column publishing, speaking and teaching experience.

Please provide full details about your book publishing history and book sales figures to date.

How did it develop that you came to write this book?

Have you received any awards or special recognition for your writing?

Will your book contain common four-letter words, disrespectful use of names of deity, erotica, sexual scenes that would be considered anything worse than a “PG” rating, ethnic or cultural stereotyping, negative commentary, or other language that may not be suitable for all readers?

If the answer is yes, would you be willing to work with your editor here to make appropriate word or phrase substitutions and prepare it according to our high standards so that it is not offensive and qualifies for the widest book sales distribution possible?

Will your book contain technical or other specialized language or diagrams?

Does your book contain photos or any other types of illustrations? Can you have them scanned and saved into a .gif or .jpg file and sent as attachments to e-mail messages? If so, please embed them as .tiff or .gif or .jpg files in this document according to the order you would have in your book.

Should we accept your manuscript, how much time could you devote to working with our book marketing department to promote your book?

Is this a multiple submission? (In other words, a manuscript submitted to many publishers at the same time.)

What skills or contacts do you have that may help in the marketing of your book?

Have you submitted your manuscript in the last two months to any other publisher that has it under current review? If so, which publishers?

Please attach your manuscript document in full as instructed below.

To send your manuscript to us, prepare an e-mail with the above questions and your answers, then select the “attach” tool on your e-mail toolbar, and then find on your computer your manuscript file and select it in the drop down window. Before you send it, be sure it is a Microsoft Word file or if it was prepared in any other type of word processing software that it is saved in rich text format with an .rtf file extension. Then e-mail to acqeditor@american-book.com.

We will reply with an e-mail that we have received your manuscript properly within a day or two, and let you know whether the editor’s committee has rejected or accepted it about thirty days later. If you have not received a response in thirty days, please feel free to contact us for an update.