Mission: Bristlecone Pine Press was created to bring high quality print books to the eBook platform.

Why ebooks, and why now? Good question. eBooks have been around since 1969 but have struggled to gain an audience. New devices, such as the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader, and the eReader application for the iPhone/iTouch are changing the market, which is rapidly expanding.

Wise authors realize it benefits their readers to have their books in a variety of formats: print, audio, and eBooks. Readers have different tastes and like having choices in how to receive their content. However, not all publishers are bringing their print products to the eBook platform, for a variety of reasons. If you are an author who is in this situation—that is, you have a print publication without an eBook counterpart—you should consider Bristlecone Pine Press as your eBook publisher.

While there are a few famous examples of books that have never gone out of print, the vast majority of books that are published today have a very short print life. And once a book goes out of print, readers are hard to come by. "Out of sight, out of mind" as the old adage goes. An eBook, however, solves that problem, allowing a book to always be available to readers for instant purchase, downloading, and reading. An eBook also allows an author to maintain a current catalog of titles and always have a backlist available.

Even if your book is still in print, you should still consider an eBook. As noted above, new devices are rapidly expanding the eBook market. Readers are clamoring for content and many readers will decline to buy a book if it is not available as an eBook. A recent comment on the Kindle Forum at Amazon.com sums it up: "If a book I want is not available for the Kindle, I am not going to buy it. I’ll write the author and write the publisher and tell them what I want. If it never comes out for the Kindle, I guess I’ll never read it."

Bristlecone Pine Press is a traditional, royalty paying publisher. If we accept your book for eBook publication, we will provide the full suite of publishing services, including:

• Assign an ISBN and register it with "Books in Print."
• Edit and format the book as an eBook, including adding aids and links for easy navigation through the book.
• Design a cover (if needed) or re-work existing cover art to be suitable for the eBook platform.
• Deploy your book to a variety of sales outlets, including Amazon.com and Mobipocket.com.

Marketing is a joint effort between Bristlecone Pine Press and the author. We will work with you to secure reviews on appropriate book review and blog sites. In addition, all books are featured here at the Bristlecone Pine Press site in our online catalog.

Query and Submission Process:
Bristlecone Pine Press is actively seeking authors who want to have their print books published as eBooks. To query us about your book, please send an email to publisher@bcpinepress.com with the following information:

1. In the subject line, please include BCPP: submission, with the title of your book.
2. Your name and complete contact information (email, phone, mailing address).
3. Book title and a 150-200 word synopsis of your book; include the genre, please, in the synopsis.
4. Book length, in words.
5. Current status of your book: in print, out of print.
6. Publication details: publisher, ISBN, publication date, copyright holder.
7. Sales data: list price, number of copies sold.
8. Electronic availability: do you have the book in an electronic format? What type of file is it (Word, PDF, etc.)?
9. Cover art: do you have a cover? Do you have the rights to use it or would you need a new cover designed for your book?
10. Verification that you have the eRights to publish your book as an eBook.
11. As an email attachment, please send the first 50 pages (or wherever there is a natural break near 50 pages, ie, the end of a chapter).

Queries that are incomplete and do include the requested information will not be reviewed.

While Bristlecone Pine Press is interested in a wide variety of genres and topics, we have a particular fondness for books that tell a story by voices that are often not heard, including GLBT-themed books and GLBT authors. We are also very interested in historical fiction and non-fiction, by and about nurses.

Due to the eBook formatting process, we are not accepting books of poetry; books with numerous pictures, maps, charts, tables, graphs, etc; cookbooks; or children’s picture books (although young adult text-based novels will be considered). We also do not publish pornography. Last, we are not considering unpublished, original works at this time.

Thank you for your interest in Bristlecone Pine Press. We look forward to hearing from you!