Bess Press is continually seeking to work with authors, artists, photographers, and organizations that are developing works concentrating on Hawai‘i and the Pacific. Our goal is to regularly provide readers with new, creative, informative, educational, and entertaining publications that are directly connected to or flowing from Hawai‘i and other islands within the Pacific Region.

 

CATEGORIES

 

·      Educational Materials/Textbooks

·      Maps

·      General Interest Fiction

·      General Interest Non-Fiction

·      Children’s Literature

·      Poetry

·      Dictionaries

·      Photography

 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

All submissions must be preceded by an email inquiry.

This email inquiry should be sent to submission@besspress.com and should contain the following simple and brief information.

 

·      Your name

·      Your contact information

·      Title

·      Genre

·      Target audience

·      A short (4-6 sentences) description of your work

 

If we at Bess Press are interested in viewing your manuscript, we will contact you within 4 weeks with the request for your cover letter and manuscript submission.

 

We will not consider submissions that are sent without the initial email inquiry. If a submission is sent without the initial email inquiry, it will not receive a response.

 

Once a request for formal submission has been made by Bess Press, you may submit your work. All actual submissions should include a short but detailed cover letter that achieves the following goals:

 

·      Identifies the target audience(s)

·      Explains how your work differs from other books already published on the same subject

·      Includes discussion of any additional material with samples (art, illustrations, design styles, graphics, etc.)

 

Please know that we encourage the submission of manuscripts that would be well suited for eBooks and digital books, along with on-line media, as long as it can correlate to our overall publishing goals as stated above.

 

If a manuscript or artwork is submitted in hard copy, it will be returned to you; however only if you provide us with a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

 

We ask you not to submit original works of art, as Bess Press will not be held liable or responsible for any lost or damaged material once it has been submitted.

 

Please inform us if the work you submit is a multiple submission.

 

Bess Press strongly encourages you to submit materials digitally or through email when possible. Please send all queries, proposals, cover letters, manuscripts, and other materials through either of the means listed below.

Submission and Review

submission@besspress.com

 

OR

Submission and Review

Bess Press, Inc. | 3565 Harding Avenue | Honolulu, HI 96816

 

Response Time: Again, we will respond to your initial email inquiry within 4 weeks. If we are interested in your work and request formal submission, please know that response time regarding your manuscript can vary. You will, however, receive an email confirming receipt within a week of submission. Due to the high number of submissions, general response time can take between 4-8 additional weeks. If no response is received after a period of 14 weeks, Bess Press encourages you to follow up.