Submitting your Work

We are currently accepting submissions of completed manuscripts.

To fully evaluate your work for possible publication, we must review your completed manuscript to determine the quality of your work, your professional writing experience, your marketing plans, and your ability to collaborate with our team.

Before you fill out the form below with your submission details, please read this four-step listing of the process:

1) Study our two publishing models: Traditional and Hybrid. https://www.koehlerbooks.com/publishing-models/

• Hybrid deals are for promising emerging writers and established writers who are still finding their audience. This is not self-publishing; the investment is shared between Koehler Books and the author.
• Traditional deals are awarded to seasoned (often agented) writers with very high-quality books. No investment by the author is required and Koehler Books pays an advance.
• Be clear and realistic about your hopes and expectations.

2) Prepare your manuscript

• Save your manuscript as one Microsoft Word file of the entire book, not separate chapters.
• We prefer manuscripts with a range of 30,000–90,000 words, though we will consider longer manuscripts of quality.

3) Fill out the submissions form below and attach your manuscript

• You must be eighteen years of age or older
• We do not accept previously published work
• We only review completed manuscripts, not chapters or proposals
• We do not accept proposals without manuscripts
• We are not accepting children’s books, poetry, or textbooks at this time.

4) Submission Response

• If your submission is accepted for our consideration based on quality, a Koehler Books acquisitions editor will be in touch via email to setup a call, typically within 1-3 weeks or sooner. Please respond quickly to confirm your interest, or to let us know you have moved on. We hear from numerous authors and strive to keep our submissions list current.
• If we do not accept your manuscript for consideration, we will let you know in a timely fashion.
• Regardless of the outcome, we wish you the very best of luck and thank you for submitting.

If you have trouble with the form or your file is too big, you may email your query letter (including your bio, marketing plan, audience, genre, number of words, and previous book sales) and manuscript to [email protected]. 

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