Editor Interview: Books to Go Now

Well told stories

Little, Brown and Company

James Patterson, J.A. Jance, Joan Didion, Hugh Fox

Our e-publishing quality, both in appearance and in content, sets us apart. We are open to new authors who are talented but untried. We are flexible and good-natured in dealing with authors and work hard collaborating with them in order to produce a great product. Our genres are broad-based and offer a lot of variety. We work hard to get our books out into every available e-market, even having our books available on the android platform.

Be sure what you are submitting is your best, best work. Get people you trust to critique your story honestly.
Use an editing program to help fine tune your work, you will be surprised at the errors picked up that you might have missed.
Please email Books to Go Now if you have any questions-they will get answered! We can offer further advice then about formatting which can be important for e-publishing.
We at Books to Go Now are all authors ourselves and love to help people achieve their writing goals.

The ideal submission is a work that has been clearly edited and re-edited by the author. It should be correct in grammar and punctuation as much as possible. It will, in the first paragraph, grab our attention and proceed to tell a satisfying story in its genre.

Submitters can have a hard time getting their works accepted by us when they send in a manuscript that simply isn't ready to be published. Some might assume that an editor can help them rewrite and rewrite a story that needs a lot of work. We do try to work with a story that has real promise if it is structurally sound and just needs some tweaking in order to make it a great read. We do not have time for total rewrites of a theme or idea that just isn't working well.

We really like the authors who submit their work to us. We like to offer their bios when we publish and we love to know about their previous successes. Cover letters aren't so important to us, a brief introduction is all that is needed along with the story. We encourage our authors to blog with us, check out our facebook and just share with us and others their passion for writing.

We generally read the entire manuscript before making a decision unless it is in need of too much work. Sometimes a story will reveal itself for better or worse in the first few paragraphs, but we still read them through.

We do look at what we are currently publishing in the genre of the submitted piece and what the amount of our waiting books in that genre are. We always encourage people to resubmit at a later date if we are not accepting due to a large volume of submissions in that specific genre. Other than that, if the editors like a story then it will be accepted.

We are a very new e-publishing company and have hit the ground running with success born from hard work. We are at our computers well before 7:30am checking out the latest mail and submissions, as well as communicating with our authors. From there it goes on to assigned tasks of reading submissions and editing. Opening up a new submission is a bit like Christmas for us at times, it can be an entertaining surprise that makes us say a collective "yes!" One person will read it, then after stewing and chewing on it for awhile, send it off to another editor for an opinion. We will trade perspectives and at times debate the merits of a submitted piece, but a work is almost always accepted in a mutual agreement of its content. Some of us prefer specific genres and specialize in them, so those that excel in that genre carry more weight in choosing a genre specific piece. There are those rare pieces that will have us in disagreement but if someone feels strongly about accepting the work, it will get accepted and that editor has to take responsibility for it during the entire publishing process.