Amador Publishers, LLC is actively looking for new material and new authors. We publish only one or two titles per year and must be very selective. We have eliminated the reading period and will accept submissions on a year-round basis and respond as quickly as possible. Please review all of the information on this page and linked pages to be sure you are right for Amador, and that Amador will be right for you. We also recommend you read several Amador titles before submitting and, of course, follow our guidelines. All serious submissions will be given careful consideration, and will receive a personal response. Publishing Process Due to our limited resources, we ask each author to provide an interest-free loan to cover some or all of the costs of publishing their book. We repay the loan in quarterly increments as the books sell and/or we repay the author with a quantity of books at wholesale value which the author can then sell to recoup their investment and earn profits. We have learned that the most effective salesperson for any book is the author. Amador works side-by-side with our authors to see that sales goals are met and investments recouped; we retain our own stock of books to fulfill wholesale and web site orders - with royalties to the author - and we promote all of our books on an ongoing basis. This is not a “vanity” deal or self-publishing. Our books receive ISBN and LOC registration, copyright to the author, thorough editing and proofreading, attractive cover design, promotional web pages, pre-publication and new release promotions, ongoing marketing support, and reprint options. If you are willing and able to invest in and actively market your book, please read on. What We Look For Amador Publishers specializes in fiction and biography of unique worth and appeal, outside the purview of mainstream publishing. We will consider novels and short story collections, creative non-fiction, essays/opinion, satire, biography/autobiography. Manuscripts must be complete and in the range of 75,000-120,000 words. Please read Who is Amador?, the Author's Testimonial, and 10 Things... to understand what we are about. Submission Requirements Please send proposals by snail mail, and always include an SASE. Mail to: Harry Willson, Amador Publishers, P.O. Box 12335, Albuquerque, NM 87195. Your submittal should include: Cover letter; brief synopsis; table of contents or outline; the first 25 pages of text; your resume or a short bio. Do not send the complete hard copy of your ms. unless we have specifically invited you to do so. However, you may include the complete manuscript file(s) on CD. This will allow us to explore your manuscript in more depth if we have questions. (No CDs, files or print-outs will be retained beyond the reading period without the author’s permission. Materials will be discarded unless you send sufficient packaging and postage for their return.) Reading Fee We request a reading fee of $15 with your submittal. Make check or money order payable to Amador Publishers, LLC. If you have recently purchased $15 or more worth of Amador books in order to get to know our work better and support our efforts, include a copy of your sales receipt or confirmation e-mail and we will waive the reading fee. Manuscript Guidelines Manuscripts should be double-spaced in 12 pt. courier font, minimum 3/4" margins, page numbers upper right; author name upper left. CDs must be formatted to read on Windows operating system; accepted file formats: .doc, .wpd, .txt, .pdf Response Time Please allow 4-8 weeks for us to respond to your proposal. Should we ask to see the complete manuscript, we will give an estimate as to when you can expect to hear back, and the publishing year for which the work is being considered. Related Links "Who is Amador?"    Author's Testimonial    Amador Book List What I as a Writer Learned by Becoming a Publisher by Harry Willson See also our Links Pages for more publishing information and writers' resources.