Submission Guidelines
WhiteFire Publishing is accepting submissions for both fiction and non-fiction. Agented submissions will receive top priority; agents may submit a full proposal (see guidelines below).
Unsolicited manuscripts–please send a query
letter including title, genre, whether or not it's completed, word
count, a brief summary of the project, and a little about yourself.
Include any information you think we would find relevant, like
expertise or platform. Please DO NOT send a full
proposal before we request it.
If WFP requests a proposal, please follow our Proposal Guidelines.
Proposals that do not follow guidelines will be dismissed out of
hand.
We are looking for books that are academic in nature and/or which
uphold our mission statement as a Christian publisher. Please see
Specific Requirements for more information.
Email submissions to:
submissions [at] whitefire-publishing [dot] com
(Take out everything in brackets, replace with @ and . and be sure to remove all spaces.)
Guidelines:
WhiteFire is currently accepting digital submissions only. If we
request a proposal, email it to r[dot]white [at] whitefire-publishing
[dot] com (taking out all spaces and brackets and using @ and a
period instead of the words).
In the body of the email, please include a cover letter reminding us
of you and your project. In a single attachment include a Word or
WordPerfect file with the following:
* One to two paragraph blurb about the book
* Two to three page synopsis
* First three chapters
Chapters should be formatted using standard document margins and
fonts (1-1.25" margins, Times New Roman or Arial font, 12 pt) and
double spaced.
Please have a header throughout with your name, project title, and
contact information.
WFP is looking for very specific projects at this time. Please read the information below before submitting your query to be sure that your project fits our needs.
When it comes to non-fiction projects, we would like to see either academic projects aimed at college classes or Christian non-fiction. We have no particular requirements for subject matter, but all subjects must be handled in ways that are at the least unoffensive to evangelical Christians or which are overtly Christian in nature. We like projects that deal with hard-hitting issues, but they must be handled in ways that point back to the moral beliefs our company upholds.
We are looking for Christian fiction of all genres. Novels should be between 75K and 150K in word count.
We are more lenient with our subject matter than some of the larger CBA publishers, but our books must be marketable to Christian bookstores. That means no vulgar language, no explicit on-page love scenes, and by the end of the book the character(s) ought to have experienced a growth of faith.
WFP is a fan of books that deal with difficult issues that Christians face in reality, but we believe everything should point back to the Lord. If your characters face sexual temptation or even falter, for example, that is fine--but they must recognize it as sin and arrive at the Biblical viewpoint on it.
Stories should have a strong hook and offer something unique. We are not looking to fill slots with a particular type of book at this time, but we crave stories that are different from the masses.
We welcome both contemporary and historical submissions, any setting, as well as speculative fiction. Our bottom line is finding stories we can believe in and authors we can work well with.
