You get a confirmation
An email lands as soon as the form and payment go through, so you know it arrived rather than wondering.
Open for submissions
Send us the
whole thing.
No agent required. Unsolicited manuscripts are read. Every submission gets an answer, with editorial feedback, whether we take it or not — usually inside sixty days.
What we are reading for
On the list for
2026 / 2027.
If your book is not on this list, send it anyway with a line about what it is. Some of the best things we have published did not fit a category we had written down.
- Trade fiction
- Suspense
- Romance
- Historical fiction
- Memoir
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Self-help
- Children's books, ages 2 and up
- Young adult
- Photography and travel
- Health and fitness
- Inspirational and motivational
- Legacy books
We do not accept erotica, and we are unable to accept submissions from outside the United States.
How to send it
Five rules, and one of them is about the file name.
- Double-spaced
- A common serif font — Times or Times New Roman
- 12-point
- Saved as LASTNAME_SUBMISSION.docx
- Word or PDF
Every submission is read by our team and run through AI-detection software. We do not publish manuscripts that are largely AI-generated. If you used a tool to tidy your own sentences, that is not what this is about.
What happens next
After you press send
A person reads it
Not a filter and not an intern's summary. Our editorial team reads submissions, which is the reason this takes up to sixty days rather than a week.
You get an answer either way
We respond to 100% of submissions. If your manuscript is a fit, the email contains a Warren Publishing contract. If it needs more work, the email contains editorial feedback on what and why.
PipeVine is considered automatically
Every fiction and nonfiction manuscript is also read for PipeVine Press, our traditional imprint. Two are chosen a year. You do not apply separately.
Before you send
Questions first?
If you are not sure your book is a fit, or you want to know what a contract looks like before you commit an afternoon to formatting, ask us here. We answer these ourselves.
This form is for questions. Manuscripts go through Submittable — the button above — so nothing gets lost in an inbox.