Submission Guidelines

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We love to hear from fellow writers and artists - we appreciate your interest in Pencil Tip Publishing. Our books concentrate on the following genres:

• Cult and Genre Television
• Short Story Collections
• Original Fiction
• Doctor Who

Before contacting us with your submission, please carefully read our submission guidelines and policy.

A large majority of our books are either initiated ourselves or acquired through contact with one of our authors. While we do encourage unsolicited manuscripts and we welcome queries from authors and/or potential authors, we generally will announce when we are seeking submissions.

We are happy to receive submissions electronically, please only submit files as a single attachment in Word or PDF format.

In order to increase your chance that your proposal will receive attention, we ask that you do not submit the entire manuscript. Your proposal should include the following items and/or information:

1. Your contact details (e.g. name, address, contact method)
2. A brief bio of yourself
3. Have you been previously published or not? (If yes, please provide details regarding your publication history, publisher, etc. If no, please provide samples of your writing.)
4. A 300-500 word outline telling us what the book is about and what qualifies you as an authority on the topic.
5. 15-25 pages sample project text.
6. Detail what audience your book will be aimed at. What ways do you envision reaching this audience?
7. What help you can be in the promotion of the book? Organizational connections? Mailing lists? Workshops?
8. What do you anticipate the length of your manuscript to be? (Please provide and approximate word count.)
9. Will your book be illustrated? If so, how many images do you anticipate it including?
10. When do you expect your book to be completed? How much do you currently have written?

Proposals should be formatted as following:

1. Typed using Times Roman 12 pt font size
2. Document margins should be set at 1 inch top, bottom, left and right.
3. Page size should be set to 8.5x11 inch size (Letter format) North American standard. DO NOT SUBMIT DOCUMENTS IN A4 FORMAT
4. Pages should be numbered (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)
5. Page header should include your name, proposal title, contact email.
6. Page justification should be set at either left justified or full justified block.

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Response time to submissions generally is 8-10 weeks. If you do not hear from us by this time, please assume it is because we have numerous other submissions to read and assess. We are reading as fast as we can. We will respond.

**PLEASE NOTE WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS**

WHAT THE FANS THINK SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Unapologetic and critical fan reviews and assessments.

WHAT THE FANS THINK is Pencil Tip’s series of books where the fans review and assess their favorite television series. Fan opinion can be extremely critical, often harsher than that of the meanest television critic. But when the fans love something, you know it. Praise, when given, is genuine and heartfelt.

Each volume will concentrate on a specific series and will feature original reviews, essays and analysis of every episode of that particular series. The fans will have their say on what they think are the best, worst and merely average episodes of a series. You just might be surprised by what they have to say.

To date we have published eight books in the series covering Blake’s 7, Torchwood, UFO, Sarah Jane Adventures, The Tomorrow People, Class and Space: 1999.

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We are now accepting submission for our latest volume of “What The Fans Think”.

WHAT THE FANS THINK: STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the most recent television series in the Star Trek franchise. To date there have been three seasons (30 episodes) produced/aired.

How To Submit:

1. From the episode list below, choose which story you’d like to write a review of.
2. Review the episode list below to make sure that the episode is still available to review. (If the episode(s) are not available to review, they will not appear on the list.)
3. If the episode you wish to review is still available, send us an email at: penciltippublishing@shaw.ca outlining your choice of episode(s) to review. (Episodes will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.) Please also include your full name and contact email.
4. Once we receive your email, we will then assign the story to you for review and update the review list below.
5. You will be given 45 days to write and submit your review to us. Completed reviews should be emailed to us at penciltippublishing@shaw.ca. Please note that completed reviews are to be submitted in Word (.doc/.docx) format and attached to the body of your email. Please also remember to include your full name, contact email, age, and indicate where you live (e.g. Sally Smith, ssmith@freeserve.com, 28, Suffolk, UK).
6. Once we receive your review, we will cross this story off the list indicating that we have received a first draft version for review and editing. (At this point we will make any editorial changes to your review and return them to you for revisions.)

If we do not receive your review at the end of the 45 days, we will reassign the review to another contributor.

Reviews should be in the 1000–1750-word range.

Episode List:

Strange New Worlds
Children of The Comet
Ghosts of Illyria
Momento Mori
Spock Amok
Lift Us Where Suffering Can Not Reach
The Serene Squall
The Elysian Kingdom
All Those Who Wander
A Quality of Mercy
The Broken Circle
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Among The Lotus Eaters
Charades
Lost In Translation
Those Old Scientists
Under The Cloak of War
Subspace Rhapsody
Hegemony Part One
Hegemony Part Two
Wedding Bell Blues
Shuttle To Kenfori
A Space Adventure Hour
Through The Lens of Time
The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail
What Is Starfleet?
Four-And-A-Half Vulcans
Terrarium
New Life and New Civilizations

We are also looking for essays, short articles/opinion pieces/etc. to feature throughout the publication.

1. These should be of interest to readers such as: How does Strange New Worlds continuity fit into that of the original series?” or “A character exploration”, or “An in-depth look at the ins and outs of Starfleet” etc. If you have any ideas that would be suitable, please feel free to contact us to discuss further.

2. You will be given 45 days to write and submit your completed article to us. Completed articles should be emailed to us at penciltippublishing@shaw.ca.

3. Please note that completed articles are to be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) format and attached to the body of your email. Please also remember to include your full name, contact email, age, and indicate where you live (e.g. Sally Smith, ssmith@freeserve.com, 28, Suffolk, UK).

4. Once we receive your submission, we will make any editorial changes to your review and return them to you for revisions.

5. Article/essay submissions should be no more than 3000 words in length.

Download the full Submission Guidelines here

REVIEW COPIES

Pencil Tip Publishing is happy to supply review copies to media when appropriate. Review copies will supplied electronically to you at a supplied email.

When requesting a review copy please include your name and position, the name of your publication/institution, mailing address and details of when we might see publication of your review.

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS

We have a range of materials available for promotional purposes:

• Book covers
• Author bios and photos
• Review quotes and blurbs
• Short excerpts

For all of the above, please contact us at