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G E N E R A L S U B M I S S I O N G U I D E L I N E S

CONTACT ST PRINT DIVISION:
QUERIES@SILVERTHOUGHT.COM

Effective 01-2009:

Silverthought Press is now accepting manuscript submissions for our 2009-2010 publishing queue.

The print publishing division of Silverthought Press seeks submissions of quality novel manuscripts in the genre of speculative fiction. Literary fiction/poetry manuscripts will be forwarded to our Megan's Closet imprint. Transgressive fiction manuscripts will be forwarded to our Offense Mechanisms imprint. Silverthought will publish 1-3 books/quarter, but we have a rolling submissions policy. If you would like to submit your full manuscript or a representative sample of the work to Silverthought Press, please first contact editor Paul Hughes with your query. To ensure that your query arrives, please send a read receipt with your email.

Given the nature of our digital assembly/production/distribution methods, we prefer to receive digital submissions via email. Silverthought does accept print submissions to the address listed below, but we encourage writers to consider the environmental impact. If we accept your printed manuscript, we will eventually require a digital copy.

PLEASE NOTE:

Before submitting your work to Silverthought, take a look around the site and familiarize yourself with who we are, what we're all about, and what we've published in the past. Know your target. Generic queries shotgunned to Mr. Editor of Sliver Thought Publications will be ignored.
Do not submit short stories to the print division of Silverthought. You may have heard that we publish a print magazine. We don't. ST Print publishes novels and the occasional collection of short fiction. You know—books. Visit ST Online to submit short work to our bi-monthly online publication.
Any updates to the status of our manuscript acceptance policy will be posted on this page, and information contained on this page supercedes any and all submission guidelines listed on third-party publisher directories. We do our best to keep our guidelines up to date on third-party sites, but this is your best source for current guidelines.
PROOFREAD YOUR SUBMISSIONS. Do we really need to say this? Yes. Nothing angers a professional editor more than a manuscript that hasn't at least been put through a spell check. Many recent submissions exhibit no evidence that the writer read the manuscript even once before sending it in. If you require professional editing services, please ask for a quote here. If we have to spend three months fixing your writing before publishing your book, chances are we aren't going to publish it.

We no longer accept short story collection queries from individual writers. Anthologies drawn from multiple writers will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we are shifting focus to the production of ST-branded anthologies instead of outside collections.

Quality submissions that do not meet Silverthought's speculative fiction focus will be forwarded to the editorial staffs of our sister sites, Megan's Closet and Offense Mechanisms. This includes all non-fiction, poetry, literary fiction, transgressive fiction, etc.

After submitting your manuscript, please allow 3-6 months for an evaluation of your work. Response time is generally much shorter, but unforeseen circumstances, slushpile backlog, or consultation among the editorial staff may necessitate a longer evaluation. Printed manuscripts will not be returned unless submitted with a SASE. All submissions are held in the strictest confidence by the Silverthought staff. We read each query and manuscript, but due to the number of submissions, we do not respond to writers whose manuscripts do not currently meet our needs. If you do not receive a reply to your query after six months, please consider your manuscript rejected. Emails requesting updates on the status of a submission will be ignored. Sorry to be a bastard about this, but the slushpile is a deep and unforgiving abyss.

T E C H N I C A L S U B M I S S I O N G U I D E L I N E S

Times New Roman 12 is preferred. Manuscripts in Courier will most likely be ignored, as will any manuscripts that feature magic, dragons, vampire slayers, wizards, or unicorns, even though Paul Hughes absolutely loves unicorns.

You may send digital manuscripts in .DOC, .RTF, .PDF, or .TXT format (in order of preference). Please email manuscripts with a read receipt to ensure that we receive the work.

Please include the following information with your query or manuscript:

Author Information:

Author name/pseudonym
Mailing address
Telephone
Email
Web site
Author bio
Publication history

Title Information:

Title
Subtitle
Word/page count
Book synopsis

S U B M I T Q U E R Y / M A N U S C R I P T

Send printed manuscripts to:

Silverthought Press
ATTN: Paul Hughes, Executive Editor
32148 State Route 26
Philadelphia, NY 13673

Send digital manuscripts to:

Paul Hughes, Executive Editor: queries@silverthought.com


	S I L V E R T H O U G H T : S U B M I S S I O N S: P R I N T D I V I S I O N G E N E R A L S U B M I S S I O N G U I D E L I N E S CONTACT ST PRINT DIVISION: QUERIES@SILVERTHOUGHT.COM Effective 01-2009: Silverthought Press is now accepting manuscript submissions for our 2009-2010 publishing queue. The print publishing division of Silverthought Press seeks submissions of quality novel manuscripts in the genre of speculative fiction. Literary fiction/poetry manuscripts will be forwarded to our Megan's Closet imprint. Transgressive fiction manuscripts will be forwarded to our Offense Mechanisms imprint. Silverthought will publish 1-3 books/quarter, but we have a rolling submissions policy. If you would like to submit your full manuscript or a representative sample of the work to Silverthought Press, please first contact editor Paul Hughes with your query. To ensure that your query arrives, please send a read receipt with your email. Given the nature of our digital assembly/production/distribution methods, we prefer to receive digital submissions via email. Silverthought does accept print submissions to the address listed below, but we encourage writers to consider the environmental impact. If we accept your printed manuscript, we will eventually require a digital copy. PLEASE NOTE: Before submitting your work to Silverthought, take a look around the site and familiarize yourself with who we are, what we're all about, and what we've published in the past. Know your target. Generic queries shotgunned to Mr. Editor of Sliver Thought Publications will be ignored. Do not submit short stories to the print division of Silverthought. You may have heard that we publish a print magazine. We don't. ST Print publishes novels and the occasional collection of short fiction. You know—books. Visit ST Online to submit short work to our bi-monthly online publication. Any updates to the status of our manuscript acceptance policy will be posted on this page, and information contained on this page supercedes any and all submission guidelines listed on third-party publisher directories. We do our best to keep our guidelines up to date on third-party sites, but this is your best source for current guidelines. PROOFREAD YOUR SUBMISSIONS. Do we really need to say this? Yes. Nothing angers a professional editor more than a manuscript that hasn't at least been put through a spell check. Many recent submissions exhibit no evidence that the writer read the manuscript even once before sending it in. If you require professional editing services, please ask for a quote here. If we have to spend three months fixing your writing before publishing your book, chances are we aren't going to publish it. We no longer accept short story collection queries from individual writers. Anthologies drawn from multiple writers will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we are shifting focus to the production of ST-branded anthologies instead of outside collections. Quality submissions that do not meet Silverthought's speculative fiction focus will be forwarded to the editorial staffs of our sister sites, Megan's Closet and Offense Mechanisms. This includes all non-fiction, poetry, literary fiction, transgressive fiction, etc. After submitting your manuscript, please allow 3-6 months for an evaluation of your work. Response time is generally much shorter, but unforeseen circumstances, slushpile backlog, or consultation among the editorial staff may necessitate a longer evaluation. Printed manuscripts will not be returned unless submitted with a SASE. All submissions are held in the strictest confidence by the Silverthought staff. We read each query and manuscript, but due to the number of submissions, we do not respond to writers whose manuscripts do not currently meet our needs. If you do not receive a reply to your query after six months, please consider your manuscript rejected. Emails requesting updates on the status of a submission will be ignored. Sorry to be a bastard about this, but the slushpile is a deep and unforgiving abyss. T E C H N I C A L S U B M I S S I O N G U I D E L I N E S Times New Roman 12 is preferred. Manuscripts in Courier will most likely be ignored, as will any manuscripts that feature magic, dragons, vampire slayers, wizards, or unicorns, even though Paul Hughes absolutely loves unicorns. You may send digital manuscripts in .DOC, .RTF, .PDF, or .TXT format (in order of preference). Please email manuscripts with a read receipt to ensure that we receive the work. Please include the following information with your query or manuscript: Author Information: Author name/pseudonym Mailing address Telephone Email Web site Author bio Publication history Title Information: Title Subtitle Word/page count Book synopsis S U B M I T Q U E R Y / M A N U S C R I P T Send printed manuscripts to: Silverthought Press ATTN: Paul Hughes, Executive Editor 32148 State Route 26 Philadelphia, NY 13673 Send digital manuscripts to: Paul Hughes, Executive Editor: queries@silverthought.com
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