Submission Guidelines
Publishing categories:
Lifestyles: The category is wide open, the requirement is that a customer picks up the book and must have it due to its design and how it informs/transforms the viewer about how new or established lifestyles can move the reader to a healthier, richer, educated, informed experience (I want to go there...) Chronicle Books would be the template.
Popular Culture: skateboard, Xsports, music scene, photo books, romance, clubs, emerging ecology scene, outdoors, you name it.....young and exploring......
Self-Help: Parenting, family, relationships, keep-it-simple, cheeky, useful, appearance, pop-psychology, cognitive analysis, HEALTHY EASY TO USE AND WILL WANT TO SHARE WITH OTHERS. Hyperion Publishing would be the template.
Fiction: A-Z, quality popular fiction, literature, or poetry; (especially about the USA/western states, open spaces, environments, nature, cultural changes over time, going on a journey, a stranger comes to town) Steinbeck, Twain, Joan Didion, and Barbara Kinsolver would be the gauge.
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For submission considerations, please send 1/2 page query letter to: Blue Star Books * Attention: Acquisitions Editor * 903 Pacific Avenue, Suite 207A, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. No calls or emails please. Confirmation by email upon receipt, decision within 10 days.
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Lifestyles: The category is wide open, the requirement is that a customer picks up the book and must have it due to its design and how it informs/transforms the viewer about how new or established lifestyles can move the reader to a healthier, richer, educated, informed experience (I want to go there...) Chronicle Books would be the template.
Popular Culture: skateboard, Xsports, music scene, photo books, romance, clubs, emerging ecology scene, outdoors, you name it.....young and exploring......
Self-Help: Parenting, family, relationships, keep-it-simple, cheeky, useful, appearance, pop-psychology, cognitive analysis, HEALTHY EASY TO USE AND WILL WANT TO SHARE WITH OTHERS. Hyperion Publishing would be the template.
Fiction: A-Z, quality popular fiction, literature, or poetry; (especially about the USA/western states, open spaces, environments, nature, cultural changes over time, going on a journey, a stranger comes to town) Steinbeck, Twain, Joan Didion, and Barbara Kinsolver would be the gauge.
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For submission considerations, please send 1/2 page query letter to: Blue Star Books * Attention: Acquisitions Editor * 903 Pacific Avenue, Suite 207A, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. No calls or emails please. Confirmation by email upon receipt, decision within 10 days.
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