X-Isle United Press is an independent publishing house created by a small group of authors with the purpose of supporting indie authors & helping them to publish the absolute best quality work possible. When joining the X-Isle family, you are not just submitting to a small press. We are a group of authors who publish under one house name, but publish the books on our own individual author publishi
ng accounts through Amazon, D2D, Smashwords, etc. This means all authors associated with this press keep all their own royalties, but are required to help market and promote each others works as well as the product of each book. All authors in this group work together to handle editing services, graphic artwork, marketing/promotion, and formatting. For this reason, any author asked to join us must have some type of expertise in one of these fields. If you would like to be considered for a spot in this small group press, please follow the below guidelines:
Submission guidelines:
1. We accept only non-fiction works. Genres include paranormal, erotica, mystery, science-fiction, thriller, young adult, romance and steam punk. We do NOT accept children’s book at this time or photo books.
2. Please submit a one page query letter including synopsis along with author, contact information, if the book is part of a series, and the first 3 chapters (no more than 10K words) to [email protected] The query letter should be included in the body of the email. IF THE WORK IS PART OF A SERIES: a synopsis of the series should also be included in the query letter along with the synopsis for the work being submitted.
3. The sample chapters should be attached as a separate Microsoft Word Document.
4. The subject of your email should be “Manuscript Inquiry” along with the title of the work.
5. Please indicate if the project is currently for sale via any outlet i.e. Amazon, Smashwords, iBook store, etc., if it has been published by any other publishing house, or if it has been self-published.
6. Please indicate if the project is currently posted for free on any website and include the URL.
7. All authors brought into X-Isle Press must have some expertise in one of the following: editing, proofreading, marketing/promotion, graphic artwork, or book formatting. Please include in your query letter which of these items you have expertise in. Due to the number of manuscripts received, the time frame for an answer regarding queries is approximately three months. Failure to include all information or follow the above guidelines could result in an extended turnaround time and/or rejection of your manuscript. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS:
If your manuscript is accepted, you will be required to remove the item from all outlets and revamp the copyright page to include X-Isle Press as the publisher, and also update the book's "about" information through KDP to include X-Isle Press as the publisher.