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From: PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Save Address Reminder
To: RCranium@att.net
Subject: Your query has been accepted
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:17:35 +0000 [View Source]
Dear Richard Cranium:
Upon reviewing your query letter for "Channeling Tinkerbell", I would like
to invite you to send your complete manuscript to us. Please send your
complete manuscript to the below mentioned mailing address.
Please include:
* Your Complete Manuscript (All manuscripts except for poetry compilations
must have at least 8,500 words, about 48 pages. Poetry compilations must
have at least 50 poems or be 48 pages in length.)
* Any pictures you want considered for the manuscript (if you don't have
pictures yet, please include a note that you will be including pictures in
the final draft of the manuscript)
* An Author Bio
* An email address through which you can be contacted.
If emailing your submission, please send to: holliann@publishamerica.com.
Please put "submission" in the subject line of the email along with your
book's title. As we receive many submissions via email, please title your
files with the book's title followed by what the file contains. (EX: book
title is The Hobbit. Author Bio file: The Hobbit Author Bio. Manuscript
file: The Hobbit).
If mailing your submission, please mail to:
PublishAmerica
Attn: Holliann Russell
PO Box 151
Frederick MD 21705
We understand that choosing a publishing company is no easy task. We
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We look forward to receiving your submission package.
May we please know how you learned of PublishAmerica?
Best regards,
Holliann Russell Acquisitions Department
PublishAmerica
www.publishamerica.com
What ought to strike authors first is the name that P&E used for the query using PA's online form. PA's staff didn't even blink at the name or consider its other meaning. After all, can you imagine PA eventually sending a promotional statement to a local newspaper in Richmond, Virginia announcing their newest book by Richard Cranium?
However, P&E went ahead and sent a manuscript to PA in the following email as an attachment:
From: rcranium@att.net
To: holliann@publishamerica.com
Subject: submission book title is Channeling Tinkerbell
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:41:27 +0000
Book title is Channeling Tinkerbell, but file name is CT.RTF. I
use old version of wordperfect cause I'm on a old computer.
My book don't have no pictures. Should I get some? Also, its been
profesionally edited. Is it good editing or will I need to have it
done agan?
I don't have a author bio cause this is my firs book. Do you know
where I can get one?
I can be reached at RCranium@att.net.
Oh, I tried but I couldn't get into those places to see what yur
authors say, but I figur it must be good or you wouldnt' offer.
Probbly just my computer is old.
If you like my book, I hope you offe a big advance. I could sur
use the money to mak up for all the editing.
Sincerely,
Richard Cranium
p.s. the guys at work call me profesor casue of my last name, but
I'm not a profesor.
Attachment 1: CT.RTF (application/x-rtf)
Just to further test PA, the email P&E sent was deliberately filled with errors. Did that deter them? Did that warn them off? Did they even offer to tell me the truth at that point about what PA offered? Instead, PA responded with the following email after the manuscript was emailed to them:
From: PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Save Address Reminder
To: RCranium@att.net
Subject: Your manuscript has been received
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:14:22 +0000 [View Source]
Dear Richard Cranium:
Thank you for your submission "Channeling Tinkerbell". You have sent all
that we require at this time. You should expect to hear from one of our
acquisitions editors within the next two weeks regarding the status of your
manuscript.
Best regards,
Holliann Russell
PublishAmerica
www.publishamerica.com
Of course, PA did respond within the next two weeks with the following email: