Important Notice:
This information page is for authors with at least 10 previously published works who are interested in contracting titles directly with Fictionwise as the publisher.
If you are an author with an eBook listed at Fictionwise through one of our partner publishers, please contact them for royalty information.
Fictionwise, Inc. is an independent eBook publisher and distributor with sales of more than 40,000 eBooks per month. We contract electronic rights to previously-published fiction works and sell them in eBook form, and we also distribute eBooks from other quality publishers and ePublishers.
Fictionwise does not accept unsolicited original works. We do not have an editorial team to assist authors with new works or evaluate new manuscripts.
What We Will Accept
Fictionwise seeks reprints of short stories and novels from established professional fiction authors.
Fictionwise will sell your works if you can offer a minimum of 10 reprints that are either novels published by established print publishers (not vanity presses or similar outfits that charge the author), or short fiction works published in major professional genre magazines, "Best of" collections, or anthologies published by established, non-vanity print publishers. We require a minimum of 10 reprints because of the considerable time and expense it takes to establish an author at Fictionwise and to market his or her works effectively.
You must own the electronic rights to your titles and you must have them available in the electronic file format .RTF. All versions of Microsoft Word can save files as .RTF. We recommend you try to submit works that are over 5000 words.
Because Fictionwise contracts only the electronic publishing rights, authors retain the print rights to seek an ink-on-paper publisher. The Fictionwise author contract is exclusive--this means that electronic copies of your works must not be available for sale anywhere else on the internet for the duration of the contract.
If you meet the above requirements but your works only exist on printed paper, we suggest you contact a digital conversion service and proceed when your works are ready to send as .RTF files.
Why Fictionwise?
Fictionwise has over three hundred thousand members and sells more than 40,000 eBooks per month, making us one of the top eBook distribution companies in the world. We have established audiences for both short fiction and novels.
Fictionwise helps readers find you. Our ground-breaking Promotheus(TM) technology can actually steer readers to your stories. Using artificial intelligence techniques, the Fictionwise web site finds patterns of reader likes and dislikes, in effect creating a neural map of each user. We then send suggested stories to the reader via email or as a notice when they log into the site. After reading a story, a customer has the ability to rate the story to tell us if they liked it. By matching together groups of people who like and dislike similar things, we can predict with a high degree of accuracy how a given customer will react to a story they have not yet read. This allows readers to broaden the authors they read with some level of confidence that they won't waste time reading a story that they won't like. This gives you a chance to build a following that could be crucial for your career.
If you meet the above requirements and are interested in receiving further details, please register (for free), then submit your author information.
