Some of you have asked about submission guidelines at Five Rivers. The guidelines can easily be found on our website at http://www.5rivers.org/contents/en-ca/d89.html, but in the interest of clarity I’m posting them here for you.

Five Rivers Chapmanry is a micro-publisher of fiction and non-fiction, catering to new Canadian authors. We employ print on demand technologies as part of responsible management of environmental and financial resources by printing only the books required, rather than warehousing thousands, thereby saving trees, land, air, water, hydro, fuel and capital expenditures. We also produce eBooks as part of that mandate.

 

Five Rivers is committed to bringing publishing back to uncompromising personal editors where it belongs, not focus group marketing. We publish real books by real authors for real readers.

We do not offer an advance to authors. We do provide quarterly statements and payments of royalties, based on a standard 10% of retail price, paid within 30 days of the close of the calendar quarter.

 

Five Rivers is committed to producing quality books that have had the scrutiny of a good editor, with attention to layout and cover design. We work closely with our authors throughout the process. And we are very aggressive in our marketing, ensuring both our authors and our titles receive the best possible exposure in the global marketplace.

 

We will consider submissions in the following categories:

No hard copy submissions, please. All hard copy submissions will be returned unopened.

 

Query first by email, accompanied by a DOC, PDF or RTF attachment of synopsis and first 30 pages of the manuscript. We will read in a timely fashion (usually within two to three weeks) and respond.

 

Please be sure to include full contact information with your query: i.e. name, mailing address, email address, phone number.

 

Please, no phone calls.