Submissions to Filbert Publishing

Dear Author,

I'll be blunt. We reject over 99 percent of all incoming proposals.

We publish books that freelance writers can use to help them create a profitable writing biz.

We also publish inspirational/self help titles. Titles on spirituality and earth friendly information will get top priority.

Here are a few details before you query:

1. All new authors begin their voyage with us with e-books. If your e-book sells well, we'll consider releasing a print version.

2. All first print versions will be released as a Print on Demand title. If the book continues to sell well, we'll then do a traditional print run.

In doing this, we're able to utilize the best of traditional publishing methods—the distribution, wholesaling, pricing structure—and incorporate them with the innovations of digital technology.

That being said, we're a no-fee-ever traditional publisher who produces our titles using earth-friendly materials in every book we produce.

That's the cool news.

The not-as-cool news for you is this: we're very choosy about the authors we work with. If marketing gives you the hives, contact someone else. If you don't understand the power of an emotionally charged sales message, please move on.

We work together with our authors to help them sell as many books as they can. But we can't sell your books without your help.

So, if you're the kind of writer who'd rather spend an afternoon crafting a perfect phrase rather than jump into this big messy world and have a blast pushing your latest work... well, you'd probably enjoy working with a different company.

If you're passionate about your work, if you believe that you've got an incredible manuscript that writers will scramble over themselves to buy, shoot us an e-mail.

If you've written something that gives you goose bumps, we just may take a look at it.

If you decide to query us, here’s what you need to do:

If you’ve written an awesome manuscript that freelance writers would find interesting, feel free to query us. Our address is:

Be sure to include a SASE.

You can also e-mail your queries to this e-mail address: FilbertPublishing(a)FilbertPublishing.com

Please note, due to the proliferation of spam and the automatic deleting our filters sometimes does, we cannot guarantee that we'll receive your e-mail query. Your best bet if you want an (almost) guaranteed response is to use the snail mail address.

But be aware: we reject over to 99 percent of incoming manuscripts. Biggest reason? Most incoming queries don't match our editorial guidelines. Nope. We don't publish books on cats. We don't publish science texts either. Just books for writers and a very, very, very small number of fiction titles. Period.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Maury Erickson, Director of Acquisitions and Distribution

Filbert Publishing