Ringing Bell Press
Publishing Books for Life

Queries and Submissions

We are a small, start-up press, and because of financial practicalities, we only enter into a contractual relationship with authors who have a completed manuscript. Whether your manuscript is completed or not, you can approach us with the concept, the format you have established, and your experience. Let us know why you are passionate about your expertise and how it benefits others.

Initially, we prefer you contact us by email. Submit your inquiry to info@ringingbellpress.com. Please do not send attachments, as it is our policy not to open or download attachments unless requested by us. Keep your inquiry short and simple. Skip the preliminaries and get right down to the core of what your expertise is and how it impacts the lives of others. We are also interested in your ideas of marketing the book, how and where your audience can be reached, and how you define your audience. If we suspect your topic is a good match for us, and we have the capability of accommodating the production within 18 months, we will request you mail the manuscript. If your manuscript is not yet finished, mail the completed portion of your work; along with an outline detailing what is not yet finished. Because our time and resources are limited, any manuscripts we receive that we have not requested will not be read and will be destroyed. Our business format is tweaked to give both the author and the publisher the maximum revenue benefits. Once we have entered into a contractual agreement and the book is published, we can make arrangements for you to order quantities of your book at wholesale prices. You are free to sell your book to your clients and keep the mark-up costs. Our business model is set up to first cover all expenses and costs involved in the publisher's packaging, production, marketing, and publishing of the book. Thus we reserve profit sharing with the author until our expenses have been met through book sales. Once that objective is reached, our goal is to give the author a higher percentage of the book's ongoing profits than is currently offered by other publishers.