WHO WE ARE:
Itoh Press is a small press that specializes in new authors. Itoh Press offers a wide variety of fiction with an emphasis on romantic elements. We prefer a positive outcome for the story. We primarily offer titles as ebooks. We also offer non-fiction.
Itoh Press publishes novellas and full-length novels in the range of 20,000-140,000 words in length.
Fiction Genres: romance, er0tica, GBLT, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and speculative fiction, suspense, thriller, historical, young adult, contemporary, western, adventure, paranormal and supernatural, horror, humorous, and non-fiction (query first).
WE ARE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN:
- Women’s Issues
- Paranormal and supernatural
- GBLT
- Romance
- Young Adult
- Steampunk
Religious genre fiction. Elements of spiritual beliefs within a story are welcome; however, we do not publish books aimed for a specific religious group of readers.
Novel length works (60,000 words and up).
WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN:
- Short Stories
- Short story collections or anthologies
- Poetry
HOW TO SUBMIT TO ITOH PRESS:
Submit a cover letter in the body of the email that contains the following:
- Genre
- Word Count
- Brief synopsis
- A short biography
- Your marketing plan, should we accept your manuscript for publication. We expect our authors to be active in the marketing of their titles alongside our efforts.
Although we like to encourage open, free and creative expression, do let us know whether the piece contains any questionable content. We may put disclaimers about content if it could potentially disturb our reader, so do let us know in advance. For instance, we allow rape under certain circumstances, but it should not be meant to titillate only educate. Writing about child abuse is one thing, but we aren’t interested in seeing the acts described in detail. Itoh Press is also interested in stories with a happy ending.
ATTACH THE FOLLOWING TO YOUR COVER LETTER IN .DOC OR .RTF FORMAT:
For stories less than 50,000 words: Send us the complete manuscript with your contact information, title, word count, and genre at the top of the first page.
For novels 50,000 and up: Send us the first three chapters and the last chapter, with your contact information, title, word count, and genre at the top of the first page.
Your manuscript should contain either 1-1/2 or double spacing and one inch margins. Use a 12 pt. Book Antiqua, Times Roman, or Georgia font.
Send to Itoh Press with a subject line: SUBMISSIONS_your name_book title to submissions@itohpress.com. Please allow four (if not sooner) weeks for a response.
Itoh Press pays 40% royalties on net revenue to the Author for eBooks and 25% net on revenue for print. We hold all rights for five (5) years from date of publication. We do not pay advances. Rights requested are worldwide for ebooks and US, Canada, Australian, and UK print rights.
If we accept your manuscript for publication, we will supply you with specific formatting guidelines. You must be able to edit with a track changes feature (Microsoft word has this).
Our books are available in many formats through our website, Fictionwise, Amazon, CoffeeTime Romance, All Romance eBooks, Amazon Digital, Kobo, Itunes, Blio, Content Reserve and more. The list is continually growing as Content Reserve and LSI distribute eBooks to many other retailers like Chapters/Indigo, Books on Board, eBook Mall, book expos, and foreign Libraries. LSI print distribution includes US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries/ submissions: submissions@itohpress.com
Website: http://www.itohpress.com/
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