WillowTree Press, LLC is a small but traditional publisher. We pay royalties based on industry standard scale and acquire projects via an industry standard contract. Advances are negotiable. We use a mix of publishing technologies, whereby our flagship titles, which sell in large quantity, are printed by traditional means, warehoused, and wholesaled. A limited number of our niche titles are produced via POD, but are still wholesaled through normal channels (Ingram, New Leaf, Baker & Taylor, et. al.) at a standard discount with full return capability just like traditionally printed titles.
Being a small press, we are very selective about the authors we sign and titles we put into print. Therefore, it is best to have your agent contact us with a query. We will, however, accept un-agented queries.
Please note that AT THIS TIME, WillowTree Press is NOT accepting UNSOLICITED works.
Guidelines:
1) As stated above, we are not currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts. At present, our catalog is full for 2007 - 2008.
3) WillowTree Press does NOT publish literary fiction (this includes literary mysteries, etcetera), science fiction, fantasy, romance, erotica, coffee table books, or poetry at this time. We specialize in mixed genre suspense-thrillers, specifically of a paranormal bent, as well as Pagan/Wiccan/Alternative Path reference titles.
4) Queries sent to any email address other than submissions@willowtreepress.com will be automatically deleted.
5) Unsolicited materials will be recycled unopened.
6) Again, we cannot stress this enough: When we say we are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts we mean it. You are welcome to send queries, however, please follow standard conventions for drafting your query letter. If you are unagented and doing this yourself, please do your research before mailing the query. If you do not receive a response other than the autoresponder message within 4 weeks, you should take that as an indication that we do not feel your project will fit with our catalog.
7) All queries should be made electronically and sent to submissions@willowtreepress.com.