About / Submissions

Contact:

Progressive Press, P.O. Box 126, Joshua Tree, Calif. 92252
Email: mail@progpress.com, Tel. (760) 366-3695. Fax (760) 366-2937

Submissions:

If you have a non-fiction manuscript with a unique topic or slant on politics, history, or biography, please send:
A brief description, the table of contents, expected word count, brief author bio, eventually a subject area code keyword list, and web address if any for more detailed info on your MS (such as a book proposal).

We are interested in broadening our offerings beyond the current niche, and will also consider other genres and subject matter.

Also important are the following questions as to your market:

- What is your target market?
- What other books have been published on the same or closely related topics?
- What sort of a market was there for them?
- How does your book stack up against the competition?

This should be part of your Book Proposal:
Search the internet for Book Proposal Guidelines or Submission Guidelines and pick a format that works for you.
This will not only help me evaluate the prospects for publication, but will help you think clearly about what you are trying to achieve with your work.

Send to: info@progressivepress.com. E-mail is the preferred means of communication.

Caveats
New manuscripts should normally be in digital format. (We may scan existing books or manuscripts for reprinting.)
Be realistic and keep in mind the supply and demand situation in the book market, especially since the invention of the personal computer and on-demand printing:
- A quarter of a million new book titles are published each year in the USA alone, while the average bookstore carries only 10,000 to 50,000 titles.
- Millions of unpublished manuscripts are seeking a publisher, while hundreds of millions of people rely more and more on the Internet for information.
- To compete in this situation it is better to put forth a quality work with timely promotion, rather than to rush into print "to try to save the world" without preparing the ground for it.

About the publisher

Progressive Press publisher John-Paul Leonard did his BA in Languages and Political Science at UCLA, and a Masters in Finance at UC Berkeley. After a business career that took him for 18 years to Europe, East and West, he returned to the USA and took over the family business, Tree of Life Publications, between two moments which reawakened him to politics: Al-Aqsa Intifada and 9/11. Like Nafeez Ahmed and Samah Jabr he was a frequent contributor to Media Monitors Network during that period.