WHO IS WHISKEY CREEK PRESS, and what do we do?
Whiskey Creek Press is a royalty-paying traditional publisher of fiction and non-fiction by outstanding, award-winning authors. We published our first titles in March, 2003 and we have grown to include a catalog of over 600 titles representing about 250 authors. We publish in ebook and traditional trade paperback formats, and maintain two retail websites, our all-genre General Line at www.whiskeycreekpress.com and our sensual erotic Torrid Romance Line at www.whiskeycreekpresstorrid.com. The majority of our titles are published in both ebook and trade paperback formats. Our ebooks are also available at third party resellers like Fictionwise, Mobipocket, and Amazon Kindle, and our trade paperbacks can be purchased at Amazon and through bookstores special order. The Whiskey Creek Press author contract is for a three (3) year period for worldwide ebook and trade paperback rights. Royalty payments to authors are quarterly based on industry commission standards. As a traditional publisher, Whiskey Creek Press charges NO fees of any kind to authors for publishing services. Editorial services, cover art design and production, paperback set-up fees, and ISBN numbers are provided at absolutely no fee to our contracted authors.

HOW DO YOU SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO WHISKEY CREEK PRESS?

Please provide us with the following three REQUIRED items as your submission package:

1) A COVER LETTER outlining your manuscript, any past publications and experiences as a writer. In the cover letter, include the word length of your manuscript as well as a brief synopsis, one to two pages in length. Please summarize the beginning, middle and end of the story. Show the conflict and resolution as well as character description. Also include a one-paragraph synopsis (thumbnail sketch or “blurb”) of the story line and tell us what motivated you to write this story. Provide any past publishing history in detail, including books under contract with other publishers and titles out of print.

2) A BUSINESS PLAN, typically one page in length, detailing how you will promote and market your published manuscript, including any past marketing efforts for your writing career. Do you have a current author website? If so, include that, along with any other sites like MySpace, Yahoo, and so forth that you use to market your works. An active author website is mandatory for all WCP authors.

3) THE COMPLETED MANUSCRIPT itself. Do not send a few chapters. We want the manuscript completed before you submit to us. Do not mail the manuscript. To preserve the beautiful Cottonwood trees growing along the banks of Whiskey Creek, we ONLY accept submissions electronically.

ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION

1) WE ARE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS IN ALL FICTION GENRES.

2) PLEASE, WE DO NOT ACCEPT SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS.
3) RESPONSE TO SUBMISSIONS IS WITHIN APPROXIMATELY 120 DAYS.

4) WE DO NOT ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS IN MICROSOFT WORKS, MAC, OR WORD PERFECT FORMATS. WE DO NOT ACCEPT MAILED HARD-COPY SUBMISSIONS.

5) MANUSCRIPTS SHOULD BE AT LEAST 50,000 WORDS; WE PREFER WORKS IN THE 60,000 – 80,000 WORD RANGE, BUT WILL PUBLISH WORKS UP TO 100,000 WORDS IN LENGTH.

Email your completed submission package to:

subs@whiskeycreekpress.com

Interested in submitting an erotic story to Whiskey Creek Press Torrid? Visit us at www.whiskeycreekpresstorrid.com and click the Submissions tab on the Home Page.

PROPER MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING FOR ANY WCP SUBMISSION
Cover page must include in the Upper Left Hand Corner:

• Author’s Name
• Author’s Address
• Author’s Phone Number
• Author’s E-mail Address

Cover Page must include Centered vertically and horizontally:

• Title of Manuscript
• Author Name and/or pseudonym
• Genre -- VERY IMPORTANT!
• Word Count

Additionally, there should be no white space at the top of the first page of each chapter. The word Chapter (not in all caps) and number (1, 2, 3, etc.) should be centered at the top of the first page of each chapter. A hard page break should be at the bottom of the last page of each chapter. For ease of reading use TIMES NEW ROMAN 12.

Manuscripts should be...

• Single spaced
• No page numbers
• No Footer
• No Header
• ALL underlined words or phrases changed to ITALICS

Please do not use HTML.
We suggest you use:

• Word 97 or above
• Rich Text Format
• No Mac, Word Perfect, or Microsoft Works Submissions