Submitting Your Manuscript For Consideration

(Revised 05/17/05)

Tree House Press is a direct-to-consumer, educational publisher who's target market is teachers and students in schools. Most of our materials are written by teachers for teachers. Please keep this in mind before deciding to submit your work.

The main area of focus for Tree House Press is teacher-developed curriculum such as; student workbooks, student activity books, student portfolios, teacher guides, government-mandated-testing aids, student journals, etc. Tree House Press IS NOT interested in children's story books, novels, periodicals, non-book format materials, picture books, fictional publishing, games, computer programs, etc.

If your manuscript is within the scope of Tree House Press' publishing focus, please keep the following in mind when submitting your work:

• Include a cover letter with your contact information.

• Your cover letter should include the following; a brief description of your manuscript, the target market of your manuscript, why teachers and/or students would want to use your manuscript, why your approach may be better than current, comparable publications if any, and tell us a little bit about yourself (your experience in the education field, previous titles written, etc).

• One printed sample chapter. DO NOT send the entire manuscript. DO NOT send an electronic disc of your manuscript.

• The complete, printed Table of Contents of your manuscript.

• If your manuscript contains works written by other people you must also include a permissions sheet signed by the copyright holder of the secondary work(s).

• If applicable, include any reviews. Note any awards applicable to the submitted manuscript.

As you can imagine, our Acquisitions Editor is quite busy and deals with a high volume of manuscript submissions. Please allow a few months for a reply. If we are interested, we will contact you with further information on how to proceed. Please do not call to see if we have had a chance to review your work yet -- we will get to it!

If we are not interested in your manuscript, we will return your sample chapter to you. Not selecting your work for publication does not necessarily mean your work is not valid or useful -- it usually means the work submitted is either not in the scope of our target sales market or, for whatever other reason, we are not able to publish it at this time. Do not get discouraged, we wish you success and the best of luck with your work.

Your manuscript is automatically copy written and is protected by law. Tree House Press will treat your manuscript with respect and care.

Thank you for taking the time to submit your manuscript to Tree House Press. We know how much effort you have put into your manuscript and the time and effort it takes to get your proposal together. We look forward to reviewing your work.

Submit your work to:

Acquisitions Editor

Tree House Press

2-110 Lancing Drive

Hamilton, ON L8W 3A1 Canada