GLB Publishers

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Contact Information

W. L. Warner, Editor and Publisher
GLB Publishers
1028 Howard St. # 503
San Francisco, CA 94103
GLBpubs@comcast.net
www.glbpubs.com

"Your source for gay, lesbian, and bisexual books for over 16 years. "

Mission

Mission statement in 1990: To publish works (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) by gay, lesbian, and bisexual authors that would not be accepted by mainstream publishers, with special attention to bisexual fiction and non-fiction.

Update in 2006: The original mission statement still applies, but to that should be added interest and commitment to transgender fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as to documenting, promoting, recording and presenting of historical works. With the advent of the Internet, this has been extended to all English-speaking people world wide. .

Areas of Interest

Imprints: GLB for usual books and also Personal Publishing for special publishing projects.

Authors Published (1990-2006)

Submission Guidelines

Manuscript Submissions: It is important that your first or cover page includes the title of the work, the author's name (pseudonyms are acceptable), the real name of the one submitting the manuscript, the address and email address if available by Internet, and the date of submission. If you wish the manuscript returned if it is not accepted, please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for its return.

For Fiction (novels and novellas) it is helpful to submit a chapter-by-chapter outline of the work, so we can get some idea of the general story and its progress to its conclusion. Short stories for print publishing must be collections, although we do publish individual short stories as e-books for downloading only. We generally do not publish books with fewer than 100 pages (that would apply almost solely to poetry) and most novels would have over 60,000 words (please have a total word count if possible). Novellas (short novels) must be at least 20,000 words and by definition fewer than 60,000 words. Short stories are best kept to a 5000 to 7500 word length. For short stories, please submit the entire story for consideration primarily. For complete books, more than 120,000 words is usually too long.

Non-fiction manuscripts are more variable but again should be more than 100 printed pages, generally from 40,000 to 120,000 words. Again Chapter headings are important, and the subjects included in the individual chapters should be presented in general scope in an outline form for our consideration. Because the book-in-development is designed and laid out in a computer, obviously the manuscript should be in final (or near-final) form on disk for easy access.