Please carefully read the below submission guidelines for submitting manuscripts. Adherence to these guidelines will ensure your manuscript being reviewed by our acquisitions team.

Please NO phone or email queries or inquiries.

UNEDITED SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. AS AN AUTHOR, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SUBMIT A CLEAN AND THOROUGHLY EDITED MANUSCRIPT TO A PUBLISHER. WHAT YOU SUBMIT REPRESENTS YOU.

Along with your submission, please include your plans for marketing and promoting your title.

Xpress Yourself Publishing is soliciting manuscripts in all genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, self-help and children's fiction.  NOTE: We are no longer accepting poetry submissions.

General Interest Fiction and Nonfiction Books:
We are accepting unsolicited manuscript submissions. Unlike most publishing companies, we do not require you to be affiliated with a literary agent. However, in order for your submission to be considered, you must follow the submissions guidelines set forth below.

We are seeking tasteful provocative, intelligent fiction manuscripts in the areas of sexuality and erotica, romance, urban, and general interest, as well as nonfiction, memoirs, and lively stories of all genres of fiction for the general population between the ages of 18 and older. We also seek short novels of 40 to 80 manuscript pages. Xpress Yourself Publishing is highly selective in the areas of historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. A novel must be well written, and professionally edited, in order to find a place on the list. We prefer completed manuscripts. For non-fiction works, a query letter, with the first three chapters are accepted.

Please do not fax or email submissions. Submissions accepted in hardcopy only. We will not consider works that have been posted on the Internet.

Manuscripts
We prefer a typed (letter-quality), double-spaced manuscript on unfolded plain white paper in a 9x12 envelope. We do not accept manuscripts that are handwritten or submitted on computer disk. Please ensure that all manuscript pages are numbered, with your contact information (name, phone, email) on the title page.

You do not have to furnish illustrations, but if you wish, copies of a few comprehensive sketches or duplicate copies of original art will suffice. For fiction we prefer to see the entire manuscript, and for nonfiction a synopsis and sample chapters.

Please keep a copy of the manuscript for your files. Because of the volume of manuscripts we receive each day, submissions are virtually impossible to track, and it may take up to twelve weeks before we reach a decision.

Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope of adequate size and postage for returning material, or else manuscript will not be returned. Please make sure the postage adheres to the SASE to prevent its loss during handling. Never send your ONLY copy of a manuscript. Manuscripts that arrive without an SASE of adequate size, or lacking sufficient postage, will not be returned.

Address all submissions to:

Xpress Yourself Publishing
Attn: Submissions
P.O. Box 1615
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773