Submissions

ALONDRA PRESS

SUBMISSIONS

We recommend to the authors who decide to submit their works to Alondra Press that they make sure they are submitting their manuscripts in the best form they are capable of – that they not handicap themselves by submitting a work riddled with grammatical and typographical errors. On our part, in order to assist those writers as far as we are able, we invite them to send their work by email, in a Microsoft document. In this age of modern technology, there is no longer any need to waste paper, ink and postage, or to wait several months for an acceptance or rejection. Send a very short synopsis – not more than 300 words – and a few pages of your novel or book. If your book is accepted, you will be asked to sign a standard publisher's contract. At present we are not offering an advance, but we do offer a generous 20% of royalties on net proceeds. A book of not more than 75,000 words will have a better chance of acceptance by us. See the submissions guidelines below.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

First:	Send either a few pages or the entire manuscript, as an e-mail attachment. Send the attachment as a Microsoft document. It does not have to be double spaced.
Second:	Do not send pdf files. We may want to make annotations and corrections in the manuscript
Third:	Use conventional paragraph spacing. Do not use two spaces between a period and the next sentence.
Fourth:	Please do not clutter your submission with blank pages, copyright pages, etc. We receive a great many submissions, and even that bit of time spent finding the beginning of a book or novel is valuable. If your ms. is accepted we will format it appropriately and insert any blank pages that may be needed.
Fifth:	Use the old, conventional method of inserting your name and address (especially your email address) at the top of the first page, to the left. Enter the name of the novel, word count, etc. to the right. Begin your ms. halfway down the same page. We may want to save your submission in our document files and examine it at a later date.
Sixth:	Make your synopsis short, about 300 words.
Seventh:	Enter the name of the novel or work in the subject line of the email.
Eighth:	We would rather not see any more fantasy or science fiction novels, or any novels in which the main ingredients are drugs, murder, rape, etc., unless your novel is a mainstream murder or suspense mystery.

Address your novel manuscripts to: Kathleen Palmer

Address nonfiction manuscripts to: Solomon Tager

Address poetry works to: Penelope Aletras-Leight

For your submissions use the link below:
lark@alondrapress.com