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Submission Guidelines:
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN APRIL 1 to OCTOBER
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EMAILED MSS ONLY ACCEPTED IN THIS TIME PERIOD.
NO PAPER SUBMISSIONS!
NO SUBMISSIONS ARE ACCEPTED AFTER OCT 1 UNTIL APRIL 1 OF NEXT YEAR.
Index for Submissions
Acceptance Times
Accepted Lines
Guidelines
Format
Print On Demand POD
Exclusive Author Contract
and Artist Agreement
SUBMISSIONS
►If you have cover art/or illustrations already available for your books please mention this in your
submission as this will save time in the publication process. Also send
a few SMALL scanned versions of your artwork in your email submissions
if you have any Send artowrk when asked for it not before.
►DO
NOT SEND .DOCX OR PDF FILES. WE DO ACCEPT
.DOC, RTF, or .WPD ATTACHMENTS FOR SUBMISSIONS. DO NOT SEND
ENCRYPTED FILES.
►
DO NOT SEND UNSOLICITED SNAIL MAIL (BY U.S. POST OFFICE)- IT WILL NOT BE
RETURNED OR EVALUATED.
►DO
NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS WITHOUT THE NAME OF THE STORY SAVED AS THE NAME
OF THE FILE AND YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE
STORY. (Otherwise you may get the story returned to you
without us even reading it. The files are separated from the emails
and we have no way of knowing who sent it and what email address it
came from!)
►DO NOT SEND YOUR ONLY ORIGINAL ARTWORK UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN CONTRACTED WITH US AND IF AND WHEN WE
ASK FOR IT.
►Guardian Angel Publishing is
BOTH an eBook publisher
and print publisher and will sell and distribute your book for sale online
and in brick and mortar stores.
►Guardian
Angel publishes books that encourage principles of positive growth for
children, sharing and caring and healthy attitudes.
►Guardian
Angel does not accept paper submissions. Please attach one single book
file attachment to a query email. Do not send multiple mss submissions in one email. SUBMISSIONS MUST BE EMAILED
in order for use to evaluate your work.
◊ Acceptance Times:
►Due to the large number of
manuscripts that we receive, a minimum acceptance time of 2 months is not
uncommon. Multiple submissions of the same book to multiple
publishers are not accepted. You will receive a notice that your file has
been received. USUALLY you will receive an acceptance or rejection letter
fairly quickly.
◊Accepted
IMPRINTS:
We are looking for these types of Children's Books
only. WE DO NOT PUBLISH FOR ADULTS. We are unique in our genres of kids books. See if you have a
book that can conform to our guidelines:
Academic Wings books will include the broad subject matters of English, Health,
Math, History, Science and Reading. These educational books may be presented as easy
readers, storybooks, articles, chapter books and musical e-books with
numerous teaching aids such as- study guides, puzzles, crossword puzzles,
seek and finds, word searches, picture seeks, definition match ups and
more. Teachers are also invited to submit. Academic Wings
Angelic♫Harmonys Musical E-Picture Books. Check out our inventory for the type
of books we are looking for. Can you write music? Got a musical eBook to submit but need
pictures? If we don't have one in our queue, your book might be right for
us. We have over 100 waiting in backlog. Angelic Harmony
Angel to Angel we are excited about an imprint for kids writing and
illustrating for kids. Kids 12 and under are encouraged to write a story
and illustrate it for publication. Some of these young authors will be
"discovered" from Young Author Contests at elementary schools across the country.
(If you are a teacher/administrator wishing to participate in such a contest,
check out our page Angel to Angel
Littlest Angels are individual personalized ebooks,
picture books, print paperback books for kids- where children are the
stars of each personal book. Littlest Angels are also simple concept picture books and easy readers for learning, sharing and caring for the
younger ones in our lives.
Example of our personal books: the first introduced personal book is-"Nathaniel Loves
TRAINS" containing personal pictures, general photos and including
simple text with graphics for small children to identify. If you have a mss for
a book about something a child loves to do or play with, submit it. These
books will be personalized for each child. Younger readers will
enjoy and learn from picture books. Littlest Angels
Guardian Angel Chapbooks for
Tweens These chapter books
are longer and are for our older readers but not quite teens! Chapbooks for Tweens
Guardian Angel Health & Hygiene
- teach our children about
health and hygiene. Our books instruct and explore healthy attitudes for
kids of all ages. It will deal with all sorts of health issues affecting
our children today. Health &
Hygiene
Guardian Angel
Animals & Pets- picture books and story books about our furry and feathered friends, and personal books for the pets in our lives. They may be fiction or nonfiction stories of heroic, faithful, heartwarming stories about our animal friends. Don't forget we have great staff artists to create your angelic pet illustrations. GuardianAngelPets
Wings of Faith
-faith-based storybooks and picture books for kids of
all ages even twixt and tweens! They teach simple life lessons. Look at
our Wings of Faith page for examples of upcoming series.
◊Guidelines:
►All
of our books are for children- aged toddler to primary (0-12 yrs).
DO NOT SEND ADULT BOOKS. Most are picture books. If your book is not a picture book
or story book style, it will be considered but we have stringent guidelines for text only books. For instance it may be a book that an adult, teacher or sibling would share with a small child, or the
child could learn to read by themselves. Some of our picture books include lessons
or instructions in the subject matter. Check out our inventory.
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No Y/A or Romance genre are considered for submission.
We do however publish chapter books for tweens and early chapbooks.
► Science Fiction & Mystery could be considered if age appropriate and encourages
children's imagination and problem solving.
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◊Format:
►Accompanying
email:
Always send an accompanying email with your submission. Any submissions
received without this, will be deleted as a suspected virus. All
that is required in this email (send to editorial_staff@guardianangelpublishing.com) are the usual common
courtesies and a small paragraph stating that you are enclosing a
submission for evaluation. WE DO NOT NEED TO SEE A WORDY QUERY- IT'S
THE STORY THAT IS IMPORTANT! Please also include the genre, and approximate
word/page count. (Please keep us informed of a viable email account- we
cannot communicate with you if you change your email address and we don't
know it.)
►Manuscript
Format:
Please format all manuscripts in single line spacing with a blank line
between paragraphs. Do not indent the first line of a paragraph. Do not
lay out into picture book form (story boards) unless you have the artwork
included to go with it. We don't need to see pages with one line on them.
PLEASE DO NOT USE FLOWERY or SPECIALTY FONTS. Simple TIMES NEW ROMAN,
ARIAL or COURIER are fine. Please do not do hard returns at the end of
a line like a typewriter. Computers automatically make the break for
you. Do not send files that have Track Changes embedded in the file-
it will be returned to you.
In order for attachments to be accepted, please inform us in the body
of the email that a manuscript is attached (provided it is in a recognized
format - .doc, .RTF, .txt, .wpd
NO Word .docx.)
Please put the title of your story in the Subject of the email.
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR NAME AND EMAIL
ADDRESS ARE ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE ATTACHMENT. SEE THAT YOUR
ATTACHMENT IS NAMED THE NAME OF THE STORY. Do not send WORD .docx
files- we cannot open them.
To prevent having to wait in the queue twice, please send your complete
manuscript as an email attachment at the same time.
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE EMAILED.
WE WILL NOT BUILD SLUSH PILES WITH SNAIL MAIL SUBMISSIONS AND QUERIES.
This is our snail mail address but
don't use it for submissions unless you are asked to.
Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
12430 Tesson Ferry Road #186
Saint Louis, MO 63128 USA
If you wish to follow up your work, wait two months and then a polite
email enquiry is acceptable but we generally respond quickly if we like
your work. But don't assume that we received your submission- email can be
quirky at best. We've had one submission that sat in limbo and then showed
up in our "in mailbox" 6 weeks later! We try to email a short response
back immediately that your submission was received. If you don't hear from
us after a few days then you may be correct in assuming that we did not
receive it. We don't mind answering an email asking if we received it.
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EXCLUSIVE PUBLICATION by Guardian Angel Publishing
►In
Summary:
1. If Guardian Angel publishes your book, it will
be edited by our professional editors, we provide cover art if
required and we will format the book for you into all the formats sold on
our website and others. (if your books suits these formats).
2. We also promote the book for you (though that does not mean you
shouldn't promote as well) - we may send the book out to reviewers, may nominate
it for awards, put the book on any other sites that we affiliate with- ie
Amazon.com etc.
The Author may send books out for review.
Book reviews are an ongoing process and is not limited to the time
that the book is first released.
But you will be expected to send your story out for reviews and to
promote your own work.
3. In return, the version that we edit is ONLY to be sold from our
website and its affiliates. Any promotion the author makes should link to
our website. (ie: your email signature, links from your website or any
online articles that contain your bio, etc.)
4. Please note, there is NO charge for editing and cover art is
provided by the publisher (There is no payment by author to artist unless
you take the book elsewhere before the artist's fee has been paid out by
royalties - see artist contract for further explanation.)
5. Picture Books, Story Books
& Chapbooks-
For eBooks, CDs, DVDs and print paperback books: the author royalties are
30% of profit UNLESS the picture/story book author/artist is the
same person (50% profit). For all formats with staff artist PB & SB:
the author gets 30% of profit and staff artist 20% of profit.
Chapbooks pay 30% of the profit to the author. If Chapbook has b&w art
the artist will collect 20% of profit for royalties.
6. Guardian Angel has a group loop where all the authors and
artists can share in each others success.
7. We list GAP books at distribution sites for both print paperback and eBook
online stores - giving
more exposure to your work. We reserve the right to sell our books
from Amazon.com , Barnes&Noble.com, Target.com, Borders.com, Fictionwise.com
and The Old Schoolhouse Magazine Store, Follet Digital Services,
iTunes and many other sites that may be beneficial to our sales efforts.
8. Any promotional activities we undertake are only extended to our
published books.
9. Our published books are eligible to be made into any new
formats that come along. Guardian Angel Publishing formats the books for the authors.
At present our books are formatted in PDF, FLIP books, HTML,
Mobipocket, Palm, .LIT, DVDs for TV, CDs for computers, mobile movies
with sound for computer handheld devices such as Palm Pilots,
Blackberrys, and a new application iKids Play for iPhones and iPods and similar
devices with touch screen technology.
10. From time to time our authors may be consulted about the
business of Guardian Angel Publishing. Authors may be asked to vote on how they would like certain issues handled
(which then becomes company policy). We consider the "published" authors
and artists part of the family and they have a voice in the business
model as it evolves. The authors and artists consider themselves our
"Angels".
11. We ask that the author applies for his own copyright and to
include the artist and whole finished product- "the book" for
copyright. This one time fee to the US Copyright Office will protect
"the published work" in its final form (the finished book-NOT the
collection of words that is prior to publication) and protect the work
from infringement past the life of the author. We ask that the author
does this so that there is never any dispute that the form was filled
out properly or with the correct names and addresses on the form. This
requirement is spelled out clearly in the contract.
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Print on Demand (POD):
►Print
books are optional.
Our St. Louis Children's Illustrated books also have the option of coming out in paperback, this will be done
through our printer Lightning Source, Inc. and a one time setup fee to the author for this format is $100 US.
These paperback books will be available online at GuardianAngelPublishing.com,
Barnes and Noble.com, Borders.com, Target.com and Amazon.com and distributed to
English speaking countries. (Some of our books are also being
released also in
French/English versions for Canadian sales and
Spanish editions.)
We are a publisher. We are not a print-on-demand printer. We
are not a vanity press.
If you wish for Guardian Angel Publishing
to publish your book it must be accepted in the usual manner for
exclusive publishing. Which means it must meet our high editorial standards
and pass our internal stringent acceptance and review before we
contract for your work and send our books to Lightning Source, Inc. for printing.
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Exclusive Author Contracts:
(Note: These contracts are identical to those sent out to
the authors unless specific arrangements have been made on an individual
basis).
Guardian-Angel-Publishing-samplecontract.doc
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If you are an Author wishing to use the
services of Guardian Angel Publishing Staff Artists to do the cover art
(or book illustrations) you will need to sign the following contract as
well:
Artist-Contract-For-Services.doc
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