Aspiring
Authors
Dear Aspiring MSP Authors,
Thank you for considering Martin Sisters Publishing for your submission. Prior to submitting anything to Martin Sisters Publishing please take the time to read the following information.
The MSP staff goal is to publish 5 to 10 books each year. Although we are small, we are a traditional, royalties-paying publisher, and we do not charge our authors any fees whatsoever to publish their books; we also do not offer a budget for marketing our authors’ titles.
We are not a vanity or subsidy publisher and we do not accept every submission that is sent to us – we are selective in our titles. We have to believe in your work in order to feel good about spending countless hours in the editing, cover-design and the distribution process. Royalty terms, which are comparable to other publishers our size, are outlined in the contract if one is offered. Authors may also choose to purchase books from MSP at wholesale costs without any constraints on where or how they resell their titles. This allows our authors to choose whether they would prefer to drive readers to a third-party vendor, like Amazon or Barnes and Noble .com, and be paid their MSP royalty or make a bigger profit by selling books themselves at book fairs and other in-person author events.
When a manuscript is accepted the author is assigned an editor and a cover design artist. Both work with the author in a collaborative spirit to get the book into a publishable format. MSP provides ISBNs for all formats – print (print on demand), Kindle, Nook, ePub and other e-formats. The ISBNs will be listed under the imprint of Martin Sisters Publishing; our authors, however, are expected to obtain their own copyright through the Library of Congress if they choose to have their work protected.
We do have national distribution – meaning, our authors’ books will be available to book stores all over the country but may not be on the stores’ shelves. However, if someone in Seattle or Miami wants to buy an MSP book via a book store, that store can get a book into the reader’s hands within days. We are not one of the “Big Few" (formerly known as the big six) publishers and make no apologies for that. We simply want to produce great books which are sometimes overlooked by NYC agents and publishers.
We work hard to bring our authors’ work to the public and we expect no less from our authors once their books have been published. If you are afraid of public speaking, talking to bookstore managers and librarians about hosting events, or if you are unwilling to attend book fairs and other events to promote your work then we are not the publisher for you. Even authors published by much larger publishing houses must be willing to put in the time and effort to attend such events and be willing to put themselves out there in public view. Our authors must do the same and be willing to put in as much work as we have to make their book(s) successful.
We want to encourage our authors to continue to write, grow, improve and advance. Nothing would please us more than for one of our authors in the Martin Sisters Publishing Family to be discovered by the bigger world of publishing and media -- and some of them already have.
If you are interested in submitting your work, please hit us up at the submissions tab.
Sincerely,
President and CEO
Martin Sisters Publishing Company
