Submission Guidelines

Effective Date: April 2019
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Submission Guidelines

CZ Publishing, LLC accepts unsolicited submissions of paranormal, science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories, short story collections, novellas and interactive stories. The average length of the novels we publish varies, but is almost never fewer than 80,000 words.

A literary agent is not required for submission. We will not consider manuscripts that are currently on submission to another publisher unless prior arrangements have been made with a literary agent. It may require up to three months or more for our editors to review a manuscript. If we take longer than three months to review your manuscript, we no longer require an exclusive submission.

Book Submission

At this time, we do not accept electronic submissions of any kind. Please send us the entire manuscript with a cover letter. Do not submit handwritten material. The manuscript should be on 8 1/2″ x 11″ white paper, double-spaced, with at least 1″ margins. Please use only one side of the page, number your pages consecutively, and put the title of your novel at the top of each page. Manuscripts should always be unbound. You are entitled to Media Mail rates for literary manuscripts—ask at your local post office.

Very important: Please type your name, address, phone number, and manuscript word count in the upper right hand corner of the first page of your manuscript.

Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission, for our correspondence. Additionally, if you would like to be notified when your manuscript has been logged in, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard.

We ask that you only send us disposable copies of your manuscript, which will be recycled in the event they are not found suitable for publication. We regret that we are no longer able to return submitted manuscript copies.

It is not necessary for you to register or copyright your work before publication—it is protected by law as long as it has not been published. When published, we will copyright the book in the author’s name and register that copyright with the Library of Congress.

App Submissions

At this time, we do not accept electronic submissions of any kind. Please send us an overview of the mobile app, manuscript of all it's content and detailed wireframes with a cover letter. Do not submit handwritten material. The manuscript should be on 8 1/2″ x 11″ white paper, double-spaced, with at least 1″ margins. Wireframes should have notes specifying interactions (i.e button clicks, finger swipes, etc...). Please use only one side of the page, number your pages consecutively, and put the title of your app at the top of each page. Manuscripts should always be unbound. You are entitled to Media Mail rates for literary manuscripts—ask at your local post office.

Very important: Please type your name, address, phone number, and manuscript word count in the upper right hand corner of the first page of your manuscript.

Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission, for our correspondence. Additionally, if you would like to be notified when your manuscript has been logged in, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard.

We ask that you only send us disposable copies of your manuscript, which will be recycled in the event they are not found suitable for publication. We regret that we are no longer able to return submitted manuscript copies.

It is not necessary for you to register or copyright your work before publication—it is protected by law as long as it has not been published. When published, we will copyright the app content (note app code requires a patent, which is difficult to obtain) in the author’s name and register that copyright with the Library of Congress.

Please send book or app manuscripts to:

C. Zablockis
Submission Editor
CZ Publishing, LLC.
PO Box 1863
CEDAR PARK TX 78630

Email CZ Publishing at: contact@czpublishing.com