SUBMITTING TO XPRESS YOURSELF PUBLISHING

 

Dear Author:

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, and I cannot stress this enough, NO phone queries or inquiries. We completely understand your excitement and persistence. However, constant calling does not speed up the process. We ask that you send all email queries or inquiries to XYPSubmissions@aol.com. Your email will be responded to in a timely manner.

Also, 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.

Xpress Yourself Publishing is soliciting manuscripts in all genres of fiction, non-fiction, self-help and young adult fiction. We are no longer accepting poetry submissions for publication.

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 Ingram Book Group and Baker & Taylor distributors. 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 adequately market and promote all titles, as the author, it is your responsibility to promote, schedule book signings and spread the word about your book, in conjunction with the efforts of your publisher and its publicist.

General Interest Fiction and Nonfiction Books:
We are accepting unsolicited manuscript submissions. Unlike most publishing companies, we do not require you to be affiliated with a literary agent. However, in order for your submission to be considered, you must follow the submissions guidelines set forth below.

Our editors 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. The editors prefer to see completed manuscripts. Query letters are accepted.

Please do not fax submissions. We will accept email submissions at XYPSubmissions@aol.com.  However, we will not accept submissions on CD-ROMs. We also cannot review manuscripts or queries that have been posted on the Internet.

Manuscripts
We prefer a typed (letter-quality), double-spaced manuscript on unfolded plain white paper. 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.
 

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. Because of the volume of manuscripts we receive each day, submissions are virtually impossible to track, and it may take up to twelve weeks before we reach a decision.

Submissions will not be returned. Never send your ONLY copy of a manuscript.

Address all submissions to:

Xpress Yourself Publishing
Attn: Submissions/Monica Brown
P.O. Box 1615
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773

We look forward to reviewing your submission!