We are a publisher of EBooks and are always seeking new authors. Kindred Souls Press is a full service, royalty paying epublishing company. No author represented by Kindred Souls Press will pay any fees to e-publish their books. Due to the simple fact of costs being lower in e-publishing, it affords us the opportunity to offer our authors higher royalties, quicker turn around times and a broader scope for promotion.

We pay authors 60% of retail of all download sales. We ask only for electronic rights for one year. We will edit your manuscript although we expect authors to self edit before submission (more details below). We will convert your Microsoft Word or RTF file to PDF, HTML, Microsoft Reader, PalmOS formatting, and other formats as they become available and feasible. We will provide cover art for your book. You are welcome to use your own if you are free to do so. .Kindred Souls Press will stay small yet we will do all that is financially possible to promote the authors' titles we represent. Each author will have his/her own page where bio information, picture and excerpt from book can be found. We will solicit reviews, issue press releases and promote the titles in a variety of other ways.

Important: Authors must take an active role in their promotion. There are many avenues for this and we will be happy to point you in the right direction. Establishing name recognition will be the author's prime goal and this is utterly important in the ePublishing arena, Please read the entire guideline section. It is vitally important to follow the procedure exactly. Submissions which do not do so will not be considered. Please Read: We are finding that a large percentage of submissions are not in conjunction with our guidelines. There is a reason for why we have these. The process of sorting through, saving and filing the submissions is a long process.

We have found the system and format which works the best and most efficient for us, hence the guidelines. Please understand if your submission is not per the following guidelines, it will not be considered and we reserve the right to delete the submission without any action on our part. We will accept simultaneous submissions, HOWEVER, if the author is doing this with the work, we would appreciate that the author notifies us initially of this. 1. Write a professional cover letter. We don't want to receive an offhand email. This is your best work, what you have spent many hours pouring your soul into and you are proud of it. It deserves a formal introduction. Imagine an outstanding job applicant who is sending a resume to the personnel department

. If that applicant slaps together a quick blurb to introduce themselves and sends the package forward, their first impression would be most likely their last. The same goes for your cover letter, give us a good first impression. The cover letter needs to include: Your Name Your Home Address Your Telephone # Your Email Your Fax if applicable Title of Your Book Genre Word Count Include in the cover letter a short overview of your story or subject. Include a little about yourself, such as your writing background. Once you have written your cover letter, include in this initial email a synopsis of your book which describes your story from beginning to end. Do not send us a synopsis chapter by chapter. Additionally we ask you to include the first three chapters of your manuscript

. Save this as one file in MS Word or RTF and attach it to the email. Don't include it within the email itself. we do not accept any other format than the two stated. At the beginning of the partial, include your name, contact information and title of the manuscript. When you save the file, please save it with the title of the manuscript included. WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS Send your cover letter, synopsis and attached file containing your chapters to brad@paleruby.com Our schedule at present is the following, subject to change depending on workload: We will notify you that we received your partial submission. If we want to request the entire manuscript, we will be back in touch with you. We would be in touch with you no longer than one week to four weeks. Next Step We don't accept submissions from work in progress - please have your book finished! Self-edit your book - it must be spell checked and grammatically correct.

Present your work as the best job you can do. We will edit your book but look at the editing process as a joint effort between you and us. When we request your complete manuscript we will accept it in the following format: 12 point Times New Roman Page break at the end of a chapter Chapter headings in 14 point "bold" Times New Roman No page numbers No headers or footers Use italics instead of underlining Use tabs when indenting, not spaces Save file in Microsoft Word or RTF format only

. If the submission is not sent in either of these formats, we will not consider the manuscript at all. Our ebooks are in PDF, HTML, and Microsoft LIT . Files are delivered zipped and you will need a zip program such as Winzip to open them.

Thanks

Brad