Flashlight Press publishes fictional children’s picture books. Make sure your manuscript:
If you are an:
1) Email Subject: Query for [title of your manuscript]
2) Copy the following into the body of your email, and fill in every field.
Title of Story:
Word Count:
Target Age:
Subject or Theme of story (1-5 words):
Summary (3 sentences or less):
Your Name:
Occupation:
City, State, Country:
If you have been published previously, list titles, publishers, and pub dates:
Anything else you’d like to tell us:
3) Attach your manuscript as a .doc, .docx, or PDF. Any query that includes a different file format will not be accepted.
Multiple submissions are allowed, but please send only one query per day.
Snail mail submissions are not accepted.
Within a week, you should receive an automated reply that we’ve received your submission. If we are interested, we will contact you within three months.
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