Recent release

Friends on Fire - Start with one private investigator who is afraid of fire, add a beautiful psychopath who gets her kicks watching people burn, toss in a former CIA agent accused of treason and top off the mix with a couple of successful but corrupt businessmen who got their start by smuggling opium out of Vietnam, and you've cooked up a deadly smorgasbord of violence and revenge enough to satisfy the most ravenous hunger for action.

For Writers

AWOC.COM Publishing welcomes unagented submissions for all of our imprints. Please check out some our existing books at the AWOCBooks.com store to get an idea of the type of books that we publish.

Please send the complete manuscript as an attachment by email to:
Dan Case - dan<at>awoc.com (substitute @ for <at>) Please include the word "Submission" in the subject line or your email may end up in our spam folder.

The file should be a Microsoft Word .doc or .docx file. Please see below for some formatting tips before you submit anything.

We will acknowledge that we have received your submission and we will try to get to your manuscript as fast as we can, but we have a limited number of readers and usually a backlog of manuscripts. If we are interested in publishing your book, we will contact you for additional information. Please include ALL of your contact information on the first page of your manuscript. Name, address, phone number, email, etc. Please be patient. If you don’t hear from us in 3-4 months, you may drop us an email to enquire of the status of your submission.

Please don't contact us after submitting your manuscript with a revision. If it wasn't polished before you sent it to us the first time, then you shouldn't have sent it in the first place.

Formatting Manuscripts

Use minimal formatting in your manuscript.

Single space - not double between lines. (We edit using notes and track changes in the electronic doc so there is no reason for double space.)
Don't use headers or footers. (We don't need them because we don't print out the manuscript.)
When typing, remember you are using a computer and NOT a typewriter.

Only one space between sentences (not two)
Do not use the tab or spaces to indent the beginning of paragraphs (use styles... if you don't know how, don't do anything.)
Use italics if a word needs to be italicized... do NOT underline.
To end a paragraph, hit the "enter" key... once. Do not hit enter at the end of lines — paragraphs are separated with the enter key and the computer will start a new paragraph when you hit it.

To start a new page (after the end of a chapter or section), insert a "page break." In Word, use ctrl-enter. Do NOT hit the enter key a bunch of times until you get to a new page.
It is not necessary to center titles, etc. Just separate them from the text with a blank paragraph (hit the enter key)