Lesson 4: Erotica Markets

Submitting Your Work to a Publisher

ON YOUR OWN

1. Your assignment this time is to begin to prepare a manuscript for submission. Begin by taking a trip to your local bookstore or let your fingers do the walking through the latest edition of Writer’s Market.

2. Check your manuscript in relation to the publisher’s guidelines. Be sure you have respected the publisher’s length requirement and note the preferred method of submission (email, snail mail hard copy or disk).

3. Now that you know who you are submitting to, sit down and write a letter of submission. Refer back to the sample letter provided in the previous section. Make sure this letter is well-polished and error-free. Keep in mind you only have one opportunity to make a good first impression.

4. Prepare your manuscript according to the following general guidelines (unless the publisher has specified a different format):

a. Use 20 lb. paper, NO onion skin

b. Print only on one side of the paper

c. Double-space your manuscript

d. Number your pages

e. Do not staple or otherwise bind larger manuscripts. Most publishers prefer to have book-length manuscripts bound with rubber bands and boxed.

f. Do not send manuscripts with errors, scratchouts, etc.

g. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

GOOD LUCK!

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