Morgan James FICTION

Morgan James Publishing accepts both fiction and nonfiction manuscripts from authors who are passionate about their message.

Morgan James is committed to the highest standards of publishing. Therefore, we require a formal submission and will evaluate your material by the following criteria.

Quality of Manuscript

Content precedes commerce. No amount of money or marketing can overcome a book that doesn’t deliver. So your first challenge is to write a book that your networks assure you is as good as you want it to be. The content of your book will determine how we sell it to book buyers.

Quality of Content

Our intention is to produce works that can be read by all audiences, even young adults. Morgan James publishes compelling manuscripts in all genres except “adult” and horror content. For fiction, we welcome manuscripts with “edgy” content and allow for mild expletives within character, tasteful love scenes, but no graphic content.

We’re looking for stories with vivid writing that uses all five senses, painting scenes through words so the reader is placed right into the action.

All fiction manuscripts must be line-edited prior to submission and will be evaluated on the following criteria:

Is the manuscript 80,000 words or less?
Does the story have a compelling pace, strong climax, and suspenseful or unexpected ending?
Does the manuscript “show” more often than “tell” the story?
Is there at least one character arc? Do you get to know the characters quickly in the book?
Are the characters fully developed, growing, and changing throughout the story?

We expect our authors to have a current, engaged platform demonstrating a strong ability to sell books and actively support the marketing of their books, both before they are published and in the months (and years) after that. Towards this end, we want to work closely with our authors to educate them on book marketing approaches and best practices.