Manuscript Submissions

If you are not familiar with our publications, please view our titles on-line or call 800-397-2282. (Hint: People who do not do this often waste their time submitting manuscripts to us.)

If you truly feel we would be the best publisher for you, then send a short proposal by email to actapublications@actapublications.com with three parts:

1. A cover letter that explains your proposal, tells a little bit about yourself and why you believe 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.)

We accept unsolicited submissions, but if you are making simultaneous submissions to other publishers we need to know that up front or your book will not be published no matter how far we are in the process. On the other hand, we respond relatively quickly. Upon receipt of your proposal, we will review the materials and respond as quickly as possible. (Hint: Wait up to four weeks for a response, and if you haven't heard from us by then, e-mail actapublications@actapublications.com again to inquire about your submission and we will get right back to you.)

If we decide to extend an offer of publication and you accept, then a timetable will be set up for the completion and publication of your work. We do not offer advances to any of our first-time authors. We do have an author-investor program that is not self-publishing but does make it easier for us to get to "yes."

Submit your materials to this email address with a subject line "Submission: title of your work" to: actapublications@actapublications.com.

It will not make it any more or less likely that we will publish your book, but if you insist on mailing your submission, send to:

Acquisitions Editor
ACTA Publications
7135 W. Keeney Street
Niles, Illinois 60714