| Submissions of Manuscripts and Proposals |
Friday 16 May, 2008 |
No submissions by e-mail or fax, please.
All submissions should be sent by post with a stamped (Irish stamps only, please) addressed envelope or an addressed envelope with international reply-paid coupons to:
The Editorial Director,
Brandon/Mount Eagle,
PO Box 32,
Cooleen,
Dingle,
Co. Kerry,
Ireland.
Don't send your only copy or original artwork. Please send printouts rather than disks; if your proposed manuscript is to include artwork, slides, etc., please do not send originals. While we take care of manuscript materials which are sent to us, we cannot take responsibility for their loss or damage.
Are we the right publisher for you?
If you are not already familiar with what we publish, please have a look at our catalogue to get a sense of the kind of publisher we are and the categories in which we publish.
Please note that we are not looking for submissions in the following categories:
poetry
children's books
educational
scientific
academic
new age
cookery
gardening
Non-fiction
We are looking principally for biography, memoirs, popular history, current affairs, modern politics. Please send proposals by post, including book outline, short autobiographical profile, and details of your published work to date, including selected review quotes.
Novelists
Please send by post a description about two pages in length, and about 40 pages of continuous sample text, together with a short autobiographical profile and details of your published work to date, including selected review quotes.
Response to submissions
Although we are a small publisher, publishing about fifteen titles a year, we receive hundreds of submissions annually, and we experience great difficulty in giving prompt responses to these submissions, simply because of the time it takes to look at them. Often a No may be quick, but if we feel your manuscript or proposal is a Maybe, we will often be slow in getting back to you because there are many factors which have to come together to inform our decision.
Given the number of submissions, in the vast majority of instances it is not possible to give individual replies when we decide not to make an offer to publish.
Writers should be aware that when we decide not to make an offer to publish, we are not saying that we think the author's work is no good; we are simply saying that we do not propose to publish it, and the reason for our decision may simply be that we do not think we are the right publisher for it; we may already be committed to publishing a similar book; or, as is frequently the case, our forward publishing programme is already very full. |
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