This may come as a shock to many of you, but we’re really nice peoples here at StoneGarden.Net Publishing! We publish what we like, so we generally don’t have too many guidelines. As a general rule of thumb, we do not respond to submissions emails prior to our decision process being complete. If you wish to know that we received the file, please place a "read receipt" on the email. Decisions can take between six and eight weeks on a given manuscript. Please read our guidelines carefully as we do expect you to follow them.
1.) ALL submissions and query letters should be in crisp, clean text and fonts. Please send all in 12 point readable font (Ariel, Garamond, Times New Roman or Courier), BLACK text with no background images. Submissions sent otherwise will not be considered. Please bear in mind that while online publishers may not be as glamorous as brick and mortar firms, that does not mean they are unprofessional.
2.) All submissions must be in either .TXT, .RTF, .ODT or .DOC format. We do not accept snail mail submissions. Please send all submissions to manuscripts (at) stonegarden.net.
3.) Please only send the first chapter (or prologue and first chapter) of your manuscript. If we like what we see, we will request that you send us the remainder.
4.) Do NOT send manuscripts as the body of your email. Such submissions will be deleted without being read.
5.) Submissions of comic collections/graphic novels should consist of (at most) two sample graphics (at 150dpi). If items are available online, please submit the URL at the time of submission, along with your cover letter.
6.) Fiction/NonFiction manuscripts should be at least 21,500 words in length.
7.) Please double check your grammar and spelling before submitting a manuscript to us. If it’s painful for us to read we won't consider your manuscript for publication.
8.) All submissions will be fairly reviewed, however not all submissions are guaranteed publication.
9.) We do ask that you send a cover letter with all manuscript submissions. A short synopsis should accompany all manuscripts. Further, we ask that you not send "blank body" emails, with just an attachment. These emails will be deleted by our SPAM filter.
10.) We ask that all of our authors sign a contract with us. A sample copy is available on request.
11.) Royalty rates are set per the contract and are non-negotiable.
12.) StoneGarden.net Publishing reserves the right to delete/ignore/remove any manuscripts that do not conform to our guidelines. We're nice people, but we are also very busy. Please make our job as easy as possible and follow these few rules.
13.) Please do not submit titles that are currently being produced by another publishing house. If the title is being removed from their catalog, you may notate in your cover letter; otherwise your manuscript will be politely declined.
14.) We do not accept simultaneous submissions. Items noted as such will be declined.
15.) Submissions may be emailed to manuscripts(at)stonegarden.net.
16.) StoneGarden.Net Publishing reserves the right to change these guidelines at any time.
Our 2012 publishing schedule has been filled. Any submissions will be reviewed for 2013 and 2014. Due to a backlog of submissions, we are taking eight to twelve weeks for a determination on all submissions. Please do not contact us regarding the status of your submission if it has been less than eight weeks.
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