Submissions | Xpress Yourself Publishing

Thank you for considering Xpress Yourself Publishing! You could have chosen any other publisher to trust with your manuscript, so we appreciate you for stopping by to review our submission guidelines.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR MANUSCRIPT.

Our reviewing process is a long and lengthy one, and it will help us immensely if our guidelines are followed in order to speed up the process. Please, carefully read the below guidelines for submitting your manuscript. Adherence to these guidelines will ensure your manuscript being reviewed by our acquisitions team.

Please, NO phone or email queries or inquiries. We completely understand your excitement and persistence. However, constant calling does not speed up the process.

Unedited submissions WILL NOT be reviewed or considered for publication. As an author, it is your responsibility to submit a clean and thoroughly-edited manuscript to a publisher. Please be mindful that what you submit, to any publisher, represents you.

Along with your submission, please include a book marketing and promotions plan. There are no exceptions. Should we choose to publish your book, we want to insure that you understand your responsibility, as an author, to promote your work. Additionally, knowing your ideas will help us to help you.

Should your manuscript be accepted, please note that Xpress Yourself Publishing does not guarantee that your title will sit on the bookshelves of every bookstore in the United States or abroad. However, your title will be listed in Books In Print, and will be available through our distribution channels. All titles are available in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom. Although Xpress Yourself Publishing has an in-house publicist and will market and promote all titles, as the author, it is your responsibility to promote, schedule book signings and spread the word about your book.

General Interest Fiction and Nonfiction Books:
We are accepting unsolicited manuscripts in all genres of fiction, non-fiction, self-help and young adult fiction. We are no longer accepting poetry submissions for publication. We do not require you to be affiliated with a literary agent. However, in order for your submission to be considered, you must follow our submissions guidelines.

We are seeking tasteful, provocative, intelligent fiction manuscripts in the areas of sexuality and erotica, romance, urban and street, science fiction, Christian fiction, and general interest, as well as nonfiction, and lively stories of all genres of fiction for the general population between the ages of 18 and older (as well as Young Adult fiction). Xpress Yourself Publishing is highly selective in the areas of historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. A novel must be well written, and professionally edited, in order to find a place on the list. Completed manuscripts only. Query letters are accepted.

Please do not fax submissions. We will not accept submissions on CD-ROMs. We also will not review previously published manuscripts or queries that have been posted on the Internet.

Manuscripts
Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced and bound (a simple spiral or comb binder is idea). Minimal formatting, please. Indent paragraphs, center chapter headers and scene break indicators (###,***, etc.); use page breaks only at the end of chapters. Use a standard, size 12 font only. Margins should be 1 inch all around. Make it readable or we will not read it.

We do not accept manuscripts that are handwritten, printed in colored ink or submitted on computer disk. Please ensure that all manuscript pages are numbered with the author's name, mailing address, email address and telephone number.

Please include a marketing and promotions plan with each submission. Manuscripts submitted without the requested material will not be considered.

You do not have to furnish illustrations, but if you wish, copies of a few comprehensive sketches or duplicate copies of original art will suffice. For fiction we prefer to see the entire manuscript, and for nonfiction a synopsis and sample chapters.

Please keep a copy of the manuscript for your files. MANUSCRIPTS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Email submissions are no longer accepted as of June 1, 2010. Please submit your submission by mail to the following address:

Xpress Yourself Publishing
c/o Submissions Department
P.O. Box 1615
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773

As we receive several submissions daily, please allow a minimum of one to two months for your manuscript to be reviewed.

Thank you very much for your interest in Xpress Yourself Publishing!