How to Submit a Manuscript
Manuscripts (complete only) should be directed to 'The Editor' at our Brooklyn office
(see Contact page) and be sent with a self-addressed
stamped envelope, a resume, relevant marketing information, and any other material that you feel
would be useful in helping us understand the book's content market and potential.
We will happily receive this information via email.
Apart from Claude and Medea, Lantern Books
does not publish books for children. Without exception it does not publish general fiction or poetry.
If you are interested in having your children's book published, either on the subject of animals or
not, you should visit your local bookstore and examine the books on the shelf that best match the age-
appropriateness, look, and style of your manuscript's subject matter and then contact the publisher
of the printed book. Alternatively, you may wish to read many of the books on children's book
publishing such as: How to Publish Your Children's Book by Lisa Burby (writeforkids.com)
the Fab Job Guide to Become a Children's Book Author (www.fabjob.com) or The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books by Harold D. Underdown.
For more information on submitting nonfiction book proposals to an editor we recommend
Thinking Like Your Editor by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato (Norton 2002). For more
information on publishing we recommend So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid (Paul Dry Books 2003)
and Seth Godin's Advice for Authors. For information on self-publishing we recommend
Books Just Books.
For more thoughts on publishing with Lantern please visit our blog entries
How Not to Submit a Manuscript and
Tell Me a Story....and be sure to refer to our
Style Guide.
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