PLEASE NOTE: We are closed to submissions until further notice.

Submissions to Filbert Publishing

Dear Author,

Getting published is tough. But what’s tougher is getting your book sold by bookstores. I remember when Beth’s first book, The Almach hit the market. The clerk typed in the ISBN and a big red flag filled the screen.

"Sorry," the clerk said, "We can’t special order this."

"Why not?"

"Publisher doesn’t have friendly terms."

That was that. After all our hard work. After all the angst of finding a reputable publisher who used Ingram’s as their wholesaler, we still couldn’t get our book into bookstores.

We knew that scenario had to change and we knew we’d change it.

After a lot of research, time and investment of capital, we’ve come up with a pretty cool publishing model.

We chose to use the best of the traditional publishing methods—the distribution, wholesaling, pricing structure—and incorporate them with the innovations of digital technology.

What this means to you is this: we’ve found a way to print our books economically, and offer wholesalers, distributors, and bookstores a fair discount.

We’re also a no-fee-ever traditional publisher who prints many of our titles locally using as 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 slower paced 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.

Also, due to an overflow of manuscripts, we’re closed to all submissions until the end of 2007.

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