Guidelines for Submitting Materials to Portal Center Press / SpiritBooks
We publish titles that inspire and inform the reader to live their full human capacity. Our nonfiction titles are almost all a mix of personal journey, the insights gained, and methods for experiencing a richer, healthier, happier life. Our fiction titles deepen the reader's awareness of specific faith traditions while opening to new kinds of experiences within those traditions.
If you believe your work fits one of those descriptions, then please do the following:
We will generally respond within a month. If you haven't heard by then, you may resend the packet, BUT NOT BEFORE A MONTH HAS PASSED.
We will notify you if we think it may fit our publishing plan and when we might release it - or if it will not - generally within 3 months of receiving the material (we decide quarterly about the next year's plans.)
Thank you for honoring us by considering placing your manuscript with us!
If you believe your work fits one of those descriptions, then please do the following:
- Prepare a clean pdf of your manuscript, with title and page numbers on every page, a table of contents, a title page with your name, address, telephone number, and email on it, and whatever formatting you're imagining the final work might have.
- Send that as an attachmentl to THIS ADDRESS with a cover email describing the following:
- your intention for the book - why you wrote it, what you hope it will accomplish
- your target market (more specific than "informed lay reader" please)
- your thoughts about how the book might be marketed
We will generally respond within a month. If you haven't heard by then, you may resend the packet, BUT NOT BEFORE A MONTH HAS PASSED.
We will notify you if we think it may fit our publishing plan and when we might release it - or if it will not - generally within 3 months of receiving the material (we decide quarterly about the next year's plans.)
Thank you for honoring us by considering placing your manuscript with us!