Submission Guidelines

1. If you are not familiar with our products, please request our current catalog or go on-line at www.actapublications.com. (Hint: People who do not do this often waste their time submitting manuscripts to us.)
2. If you truly feel we would be the best publisher for you, then send a proposal with three parts:
1. A cover letter that explains your proposal and tells a little bit about yourself and why your proposed work fits our product line, and exactly whom you see as the audience. (Hint: If your book is for "everyone," then it probably is not for us. We need to know the kind of person who will buy it and why.)
2. A table of contents for your proposed work.
3. An introduction and one chapter. We will not read entire manuscripts. (Hint: Send us your best writing. It does no good for you to tell us that something is "just a draft" or that you are "still working on it." We are going to judge it as if it is your final product.)
3. Be sure to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your proposal, indicating whether you want the entire proposal returned or just our answer. Your proposal will not receive a response without this SASE.
4. We accept unsolicited submissions.
5. We do not accept electronic submissions.
6. Upon receipt of your proposal we will contact you with a rejection letter or a request for additional information or samples. (Hint: Wait eight weeks for a response, and if you haven't heard from us, e-mail acta@actapublications.com to inquire about your submission.)
7. Upon receipt of the requested material, we will contact you with a rejection or an offer of a contract.
8. If contract is signed, then a timetable will be set up for the completion and publication of your work.
9. We do not offer advances to any of our first-time authors.
10. We will accept proposals that have been sent to other publishers simultaneously. You must, however, indicate this on your initial proposal. If not, your proposal will be automatically rejected at the point this fact becomes known--no matter how far along we are in the process.