Query Guidelines

Alive Communications works primarily with established, successful career authors who write in a variety of genres.

If you are an author who has at least one book commercially published, and/or are referred by an Alive Communications client or close contact,

Then you may submit a query letter that includes:

• Your brief author biography (including recent speaking engagements, media appearances, and publishing and sales histories of your books);
• The name of the Alive Communications client or contact referring you, if applicable; and
• A synopsis of the work for which you are seeking agency representation (including the target audience, and sales and marketing hooks);
• The first two to three chapters of your manuscript.

IMPORTANT: Please do not attach anything to your email. All information must be included in the body of your email to us. Attachments will not be read.

Send your query via email to: submissions@alivecom.com

• Do not send multiple submissions.
• Your subject line should be the name of your book.

If you meet the guidelines above and we are interested in learning more about your project, we will respond to your query letter, via email, within 6-8 weeks. If we are interested, we may request a full manuscript.

Note: Queries to Alive Communications should be according to the above guidelines. Due to staffing restrictions and the volume of manuscripts we receive daily, we cannot respond to queries which do not meet the criteria above. We do not return any unsolicited queries that arrive at our offices via mail, even if a self-addressed stamped envelope is included. We are not responsible for any unsolicited materials that arrive at our offices. Please do not send any materials, manuscripts, galleys, or sample books unless you are specifically requested to do so by the Submissions Coordinator or one of our agents at Alive Communications.