Submissions Guidelines

Submissions are closed for Young Adult until further notice.

***No simultaneous submissions!***

This means that you are not to submit a manuscript to us and another publishing house at the same time.

This does not mean that you can't submit more than one to us.

Be prepared to wait up to six months for the submission process.

Make your blurb interesting enough that the reader will grab your manuscript from the stack to read.

Absolutely no manuscripts will be accepted over 150,000 words.

No manuscripts will be accepted with pictures in the body  of the book (Picture books)!

Please follow the manuscript preparation shown below or the manuscript will not be accepted!

link to sample contract

1. Query First

Send an email letter to subs@wings-press.com . The letter should contain a brief synopsis of your manuscript. Identify the genre of your manuscript in the subject line of your email. If it is a genre in which we are seeking manuscripts and meets our needs, we will send you an invitation. Do not send your manuscript without an invitation.

*We do not accept submissions of manuscripts which are erotica or about alternate life styles.

2. Invited Submission Formatting Guidelines

3. Genres

A. Romance novels (Absolutely nothing over 150,000 words)

We're always looking for innovative fiction. Please read the books we publish in your genre for an idea what we like.

B. Any genre with an older heroine (age 40 and above)

C. Young Adult (30,000 words minimum, 45, 000 maximum) Closed until further notice.

 

D. Middle Reader (word count commensurate to the story. No picture books)

E. General Fictions 

(These will have very little or no romance, 60,000 minimum word count and absolutely nothing over 150,000 words)

4. Manuscript Preparation

PLEASE FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES OR YOUR MANUSCRIPT WILL BE PROMPTLY REJECTED.

-Cover page to include in the Upper Left Hand Corner:

-Cover page to include (centered vertically and horizontally):

-Use only one blank line-space at the top of the first page of each chapter
(extra white space is not needed in e-publishing)

-SPELL OUT THE CHAPTER NUMBER USING TITLE CASE: on the left margin at the top of the first page of each chapter.
Example: One; Two

-Use a hard page break at the end of the text on the last page of each chapter.

-Use TIMES NEW ROMAN 12

-Use Single space

-EM DASHES
Do not use em dashes. Use double hyphens to indicate an interruption of dialogue or direct thought. There are no spaces on either side of the double hyphens

-ELLIPSES
Ellipses indicate the trailing off of or trailing in to speech or dialogue. Three periods with no spaces between them are used for ellipses. Example: "Well, I thought…" Mattie brushed at a stray lock of hair, "…we could go to Disney World."

-Please do NOT use HTML

-Please remove underline/underscore and change to italics

Additional Tips:

Wings ePress, Inc. does not accept or publish X-rated books, erotica, or manuscripts about alternative life styles. An author can write fairly steamy scenes, but it must be appropriate for the material. Write the kind of love scenes with which you feel comfortable and the chances are we'll be fine with it. With the greater freedom with e-novels, our word count is 50,000-150,000 words, though we will look at longer books when the story warrants the length. We are not interested in seeing manuscripts with less than 50,000 word count for any genre other than Young Adult books.

We look forward to reading your manuscripts.

Pat Evans,
Submission Coordinator, submissionscoordinator@wings-press.com 
Wings ePress, Inc.

http://www.wings-press.com

Submissions address: subs@wings-press.com