WHAT KIND OF BOOKS DOES FARCOUNTRY PRESS PUBLISH?
  Photography (states, cities, geographical regions, national parks, wildlife)
  Popular history
  Children’s educational (nature, history)
  Guidebooks

Farcountry Press does not publish fiction or poetry. Any such titles in our catalog are self-published through our custom imprint, Sweetgrass Books. Our editorial board will review your proposal as quickly as staff time allows.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

We prefer email for proposals. For prose books, send text as MS Word files or PDFs. No special formatting or layout design is needed—keep it simple. Do include PDFs of images/photography if they are necessary to the project.

For photography books, please provide a low res PDF or a link to your online portfolio specific to your proposed book. Please do NOT mail high res images to us on portable storage or send via file transfer protocol until we’ve discussed your proposal and agreed to review your materials.

For illustrated books, please provide a few sample .jpgs or PDFs of any proposed illustrations with your email.

INCLUDE THESE MATERIALS IN YOUR PROPOSAL:

1. A description of your book idea and an explanation of what makes your book unique
2. A draft table of contents
3. Sample chapters and scans or links to accompanying art/images (if applicable)
4. Information regarding the timeframe, audience, market, competition, and sales potential
5. A résumé or list of publication credits and a statement of why you’re the right person to write this book
6. A list of comparable or competing titles already in the marketplace.
7. Your contact information

WHERE TO SEND YOUR PROPOSAL
Please submit your photography and illustrated proposals to [email protected] and any other type of book proposal to [email protected].

Note: We do accept hard-copy submissions, but they take longer to review and respond to, and please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like your proposal materials returned to you. Unsolicited submissions of photography will not be accepted and will not be returned. For hard-copy items, a self-addressed stamped envelope is required for return of materials. Do NOT send photographs in slide or transparency form. Proposals without a self-addressed stamped envelope will not be returned. CDs / DVDs will be destroyed.

Acquisitions
Farcountry Press
P.O. Box 5630
Helena, MT 59604

Please note that when we decide to add a new book to one of our existing series of photography books, we solicit submissions from photographers in our database, then select the best photographer for that particular project. If you propose adding a new book to one of our existing series, we do not consider this an original proposal.

If you would like to be added to our database of photographers and be considered in future Farcountry Press calls for submission, send your stock list (and/or the URL of your website) to [email protected]. If your questions relate to any other type of book proposal, please contact [email protected].

Thank you for your interest in Farcountry Press!