Grab Your Cart, Add Your Books...  Checkout About Us Our Retailers Author Treats Contemporary Historical Inspirational Paranormal Suspense Time Travel Westerns Young Adult Shopping Cart FAQ Submissions Contact Us Chat Room CHAT FAQs Links Steam Heat Erotica Class Act Home	CLASS ACT BOOKS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The digital age brings new challenges for aspiring authors. Submission of a manuscript is quick, just attach your file to an email and send. The test of the process is doing it correctly. We welcome your submissions, but we request you follow our guidelines. This process tells us many things, one of which is your professionalism. Follow our guidelines and you may have made one step in the direction of publication. We request an email cover letter with your completed RTF format manuscript attached and sent to: classactsubmissions@  gmail.com  (without the spaces after the @). The manuscript must be one file. DO NOT send multiple files. We will discard your submission. The subject of your email will be the following: SUBMISSION: NAME OF YOUR BOOK FORMAT THE MANUSCRIPT DO NOT format the manuscript with styles. No bold, no huge letters. Just a nice 12 point font that is easy on our eyes. Use italics, DO NOT underline to indicate italic DO NOT use spaces between paragraphs Use two dashes or an em dash An ellipsis is three dots…no spaces before, after or between. This is a big pet peeve at Class Act Books! Use * * * * for scene breaks. Do not add a space above or below the stars just between the stars. Save your manuscript in RTF format, this format is safe for all computers, if you don’t use RTF we will not open your manuscript. That’s right, it will be deleted without being looked at, so please, use RTF when you save. That is all that is necessary. When it comes to formatting, less is far better than more. THE COVER LETTER Many writers find creating a cover letter a difficult endeavor. We will make it easier for you by listing exactly what we want. A block of information that states the following right up front o    Your real name o    Pen name, if using one o    Your address and phone number o    Email address! All of our correspondence is by email o    Title of your book o    State if the book is for Class Act or Steam Heat o    Genre o    Word count o    Past publishing credit if you have some. We love new authors, but do polish your work. A short blurb, a couple of paragraphs at the most. Look at our website and peruse the blurbs beside our books. This is your sales tool to connect with the reader and make them want to purchase your book.  Now, just add…the dreaded SYNOPSIS! o    Tell the basics of your complete story, just a couple of paragraphs will do. We want it all, don’t skip the ending! SAVE IN RTF. That’s it! Now send it to us and we’ll get back with you soon. CURRENTLY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS IN THE FOLLOWING GENRES Check out our genre list on Class Act Books and Steam Heat, they are all open at the present, but filling fast. We are looking for full novels between 25,000 to 100,000 words, the word count depends on the genre. Know your genre—we will know if you don’t. NO PORNOGRAPHY, our erotic romances are just that, ROMANCES. They show detailed love scenes in good taste. Think of erotic romances as a normal romance story with graphic love scenes. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS, yes we will accept them, but please state that it is a Multiple Submission in your cover letter. Thank you