Authors General Guidelines
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Although we will accept inquiries from professional literary
agents, we prefer to deal directly with the author.
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Describe your idea for the book.
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Tell us the approximate number of pages in the manuscript
(81/2” x 11” format; specify type and font
size).
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Include an outline in some detail.
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Include up to three sample chapters.
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Tell us about yourself as a writer. Include your background
experience, education, church affiliation, accomplishments,
etc.
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List your articles and books that have been published.
Include the titles, periodicals or publishers and the
dates.
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Give us your mailing and e-mail addresses.
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If your proposal is for children’s literature,
give the intended age range.
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Send us a copy of your proposal and keep the original.
We do not return proposals.
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We will consider proposals that have been offered to
other publishers at the same time.
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Mail your proposal to us at the address below. Do not
use e-mail to send us proposals or attempt to make one
over the telephone.
Fair Havens Publications
Acquisitions Department
P. O. Box 1238
Gainesville, TX 76241-1238
We will try to let you know if we are interested in pursuing
your proposal within three months at the latest, but usually
sooner. Please limit follow-up contacts to letters or e-mail.
(Our address is fairhavens@fairhavenspub.com.)
We do not have a catalog available for mailing. For information
about the books we publish, see our web site at www.fairhavenspub.com/.
TOPICS / SUBJECTS
Fair Havens Publications is a company owned by Christians.
We publish mainly to the Christian market. Occasionally we
will consider a proposal for a book suited for a general readership.
Preferred subjects would be related to family life, human
interest, mysteries, stories for children, or non-fiction
animal stories. (We are currently looking for brief accounts
depicting the emotional bond between man and animals, or ways
animals demonstrate intelligence and personality.)
For the Christian market, we publish books for conservative,
evangelical readers. Here is a partial list of the topics
we will consider:
Aplogetics
Bible / Biblical Studies
Biography
Children's Books (Ages 1-12)
Christian Home Schooling (books suitable for use in)
Christian Living
Devotionals
Discipleship
Doctrine
Evangelism
Family
Fiction, Adult
Fiction, Adventure
Fiction, Historical/Biblical
Fiction, Juvenile (Ages 8-12)
Group Study Books
Health
How-To, SelfHelp
Marriage and Divorce
Men's Interests
Missions
Prayer
Prophecy
Senior Adult Concerns
Singles Issues
Spirituality
Women's Issues
ROYALTIES
Royalties will be paid on the basis of the net (wholesale)
price of the book. For unpublished authors the rate usually
begins at 10% and increases to 15% after a specified number
of copies have been sold. For published authors, the rate
usually begins at 10% and increases to approximately 18% after
a specified number of copies have been sold.
We do not normally pay advances to unpublished authors. Advances
for previously published authors are negotiable in most cases.
First print runs vary from 3,000 to 12,000 copies.
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