Submissions to See Sharp Press

See Sharp Press welcomes submissions. We look forward to considering yours. To save time, both yours and ours, and to ensure that we are an appropriate publisher, please carefully read the following guidelines.

How to Submit Manuscripts

Please send either a query letter or query e-mail before sending anything else, and please include a self-addressed stamped envelope or include your e-mail address if you're sending your query by regular mail. Also, please do not send your query as an e-mail attachment.

If you receive a positive response to your query, please then send an outline and a sample chapter (or full ms. if so requested), and include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want your materials returned.

We will NOT accept unsolicited samples or manuscripts sent as e-mail attachments. We delete all such attachments without considering them. Likewise, we will not accept unsolicited samples or manuscripts sent on floppy disks or CDs.

Please note that we will not accept simultaneous submissions. Also please realize that sending multiple submissions to small presses will not drive up the price for your ms. All it will do is irritate the publishers and give you a bad reputation. If we find out that you've ignored our guidelines and have sent a multiple submission to us — we know a lot of the other publishers working in our niches — we will never consider any of your other works.

Please do not send complete manuscripts prior to sending a query and receiving an answer.

Manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope.

And if you haven't yet written your book, feel free to send us a query describing your project. We'll tell you if we might have interest, but that's as far as it'll go until we receive a second query following completion of your ms.

Areas of Publication

See Sharp Press publishes trade paperbacks and pamphlets in several niches:

  1. Music theory & instruction
  2. Anti-12-step substance abuse self-help / analytical (we do not accept "personal history" mss.)
  3. Psychology, especially Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
  4. Anarchism
  5. Atheism
  6. Philosophy (we are not accepting manuscripts in this area)
  7. Fiction (we rarely accept fiction mss.)

We'll also consider nonfiction manuscripts in other areas, but we generally stick to the above niches.

  • In the first three areas listed above, we publish books only.
  • In the fourth and fifth, anarchism and atheism, we publish both books and pamphlets.
  • In the sixth, philosophy, as noted above, we are not accepting manuscripts.
  • In the final area, fiction, we publish books only.

See Sharp Press does NOT publish the following types of materials:

  1. Poetry
  2. Personal memoirs
  3. Books of essays
  4. New age
  5. Religious
  6. 12-step "recovery"
  7. Metaphysical
  8. General self-help
  9. Photo collections
  10. Humor
  11. Cookbooks

The only exception to the above is that we will print individual essays as pamphlets, but only if they fall into the subject areas in which we publish pamphlets (anarchism and atheism).

Please send queries to:

See Sharp Press
P.O. Box 1731
Tucson, AZ 85702

or (for queries, not submissions) contact us via E-mail at info(at)seesharppress(dot)com.

We normally attempt to answer e-mail queries within a day or two of receipt, and surface mail queries within a week of receipt. If we request a sample chapter or full manuscript, we normally will reply within a month of receipt.

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