What is required by publishers to get my book in print?

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James Frey
Owner, American Literary Press
www.americanliterarypress.com  
410-882-7700, 800-873-2003

James V. Frey is the current owner of American Literary Press, a Baltimore, MD-based book publisher that has published books written by more than 1,300 first-time authors during the past 20 years.

Jim is a Cum Laude graduate of Dartmouth College. Following graduation from Dartmouth, he served as a high school teacher in Southern New Hampshire. Subsequently, he spent 15 years with Xerox Corporation in various Sales and Marketing capacities, accountable as a senior manager in his last two assignments. During the 1990’s, he was a General Manager for several large office technology firms and served as a director on five companies’ Board of Directors. Since 1999, he has been an owner of/investor in six entrepreneurial ventures, including American Literary Press. 

In 2001, Jim self-published his own industry-targeted “how to” book, based on his experience with both big and small business, that generated $25,000 in sales. In his estimation, Jim considers the publication of his 86 year-old father’s autobiography by American Literary Press in 2006 to be one of one of his major professional accomplishments.

With nearly two decades of experience, American Literary Press has the knowledge necessary to produce books exactly as our authors envision them. Our ability to adapt to the wishes of our authors is one of the primary reasons our company has been chosen by more than 1,200 aspiring and first-time writers. Not a single book is published unless it is one that we can proudly claim as our own, for we require that our books meet the highest standards for editorial accuracy, design and production.

American Literary Press provides authors with a wide variety of options from which to choose, including author-marketed publishing and programs that include professional marketing services. One of these options is certain to serve your needs. First, let’s evaluate your publishing project.

American Literary Press is your best solution if:

You want a book of first-rate bookstore quality and durability perfectly suited in design and format to your work and its market.

You want to see your work published in an edition you will be proud to present to the literary marketplace.

You want to work with a publisher you can trust to stand behind its commitments.

No other company can do more to satisfy your expectations because publishing is our only business. We are a full-service publisher, not simply a printer or bookseller with a high-tech copy machine.

We can show you how to save money without compromising on quality.

We offer cost-effective alternatives designed for your specific needs.

We use our extensive database of current marketing and sales contacts to ensure that your work will get the kind of exposure you seek.

What is required by publishers to get my book in print?

In this video, Jim Frey answers many questions surrounding how to write a book and get it published.

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Jim Frey: Hi, I am Jim Frey. I am the owner of American Literary Press and I am going to be talking about how to create a type manuscript.

Host: What is required by publishers to get my book in print?

Jim Frey: No matter what type of publisher that you are looking for, for your book and we'll get into different types of publishers that are available to you a little bit later. One universal requirement is you are going to have to have a typed manuscript and the days of electric typewriters or electronic typewriters since long since passed into the computer age. So I suggest that if your comfort is to handwrite it and type it after that, that's fine, but for submission to any type of publisher, you will need a typed manuscript. People often ask us what format or what computer program that manuscript should be in. The universally accepted program for typing is Microsoft Word. This is not a commercial for Microsoft Word, but it's with the one program that's best for first time authors. I suggest that you set your computer program to double space that allows both you and an eventual publisher or agent to do some editing. Secondly, it be done in the common font like Times New Roman, Arial are the two typical fonts that people use. Third, it should be in 12 point type for the font size. So, when you type it, do it in that program with those aspects, assuming it's all in your computer in a book file however you organize it. When you print it and submit it to a publisher for publication, you want to provide a single sided copy of that book. Do not take it to a copy shop locally and copy on both sides. The preference is for single sided manuscripts.

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