The Swetky Agency - Submission Method Page

Let's Get This Submission Thing Right!

If you're an author or a screenwriter looking to get your full-length work published or produced (no short stories, short scripts, poetry, or children's picture books), we need you to follow the procedures outlined below. Select the options that best pertain to you and your relationship with the agency.

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Are You Already an Agency Client? If so, then please send us a Submission Synopsis Form for your latest work from one of these two pages. For books: Submission Synopsis - Book. For scripts: Submission Synopsis - Script.

If Not a Client, Have You Been Invited To Submit? If you are not an existing Swetky Agency client but you have been invited to submit a Submission Synopsis Form and a complete manuscript by a representative of The Swetky Agency, please send us a Submission Synopsis Form from one of these two

Invited

pages. For books: Submission Synopsis - Book. For scripts:

Submission Synopsis - Script.

After submitting the form, please send your completed manuscript as an e-mail attachment and put REQUESTED MANUSCRIPT in the subject line. If we think that your work is marketable and we would like to represent you and your full-length properties, we'll notify you promptly.

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Is This an Unsolicited Query? If you are not an existing Swetky Agency client and have not been invited to submit a Submission Synopsis Form and a complete manuscript by a representative of The Swetky Agency, please send your e-mail query or proposal to Faye Swetky of The Swetky

Agency via the "Contact" link at the bottom of this page. Do not include attachments. Place the words, BOOK QUERY or SCRIPT QUERY, in the subject line. Include in your e-mail query your GENRE, TITLE, PLATFORM, SYNOPSIS,	Submission Tip: Keep your query short! Capture the essence of your work in a few sentences, as a dust-jacket copywriter would do. Make us want to see more!
and author's BIOGRAPHY along with any other information that you consider critical to our consideration of your submission. Do not include the complete manuscript until a representative asks you to do so.

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If We Think We Can Sell It. If after reviewing your query we think that it might be something we can sell to a publisher or producer (or both!), we'll contact you via e-mail. At that time, only after being requested to do so by The Swetky

Submission Tip: To see an actual Query Letter that helped the author secure representation for his latest book and help win the author a publishing contract, CHECK THIS OUT!

Agency, send a detailed Submission Synopsis Form by using the appropriate link in the "Invited" section above. After submitting the form, send your completed manuscript as an e-mail attachment to The Swetky Agency at the address below. Please place REQUESTED MANUSCRIPT in the subject line.

Final Steps to Literary Representation. Only after having your material accepted for representation and entering into an agreement-in-principle for literary representation by The Swetky Agency, we'll e-mail you an author-agent agreement and request that you sign and return it and submit any additional materials required, at which time we will begin marketing your

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accepted properties immediately and professionally, using all of the agency contacts

and the more than ten years of publishing industry knowledge at our disposal.

Please note that we will notify you, as a represented client, of any substantive interest we receive in your work. We will not e-mail you when we have nothing to report, and we will not notify you of summary rejections (you've had enough of those already) or of lack of response to our promotional efforts. We will pass along pertinent publisher or producer correspondence and potentially constructive criticism, and we will e-mail you regarding any substantive reasons for rejection of your material when provided to us.

NOTE: Failure to comply with these submission policies will guarantee the automatic rejection of your material without notification. E-mail submissions only, please.

Important Notes about Formatting Books and Scripts

Always use the proper formatting for your book or script. Failure to do so will very likely cost you an opportunity to see your book published. You'll find book formatting guidelines and formatting samples here.

When formatting a script, always use conventional script formats, as endorsed by the WGA.

Here's Why To Format This Way...

Publishers and producers are used to seeing manuscripts in one format and do not appreciate or condone other formats. Creativity is not an option here. Be creative in your writing. Be conventional in your presentation. Get used to setting up your manuscripts according to preferred formatting and always use the proper formatting for your books and scripts. If you don't, you'll have one very serious strike against you from the very start, and that could turn out to be one strike too many!

To submit your book or script ONLY AFTER BEING REQUESTED TO DO SO or to submit an unsolicited query or proposal (or if you have any questions or problems regarding the electronic transmission of your work), please contact Faye M. Swetky via the secure CONTACT link below.