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We ask for an author to submit a query letter because it shows your professional and business side of your writing talent. We want to know if you have a literary agent, what genre you believe your work would be classified in etc. We also want to know if you have any other published works. Additionally, we want to know a little bit about your story.
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We wanted to streamline our submission process and to make it easier for writers to transmit their work to us.
Our company policy is the following: We only work with a few selected companies for our cover art. We believe the cover design should be original and distinctive for our releases.