When your submission package is complete and ready to go, check the publisher’s guidelines to see who you should send it to. I know that sounds like a no-brainer, but I’ve had potential authors send me submissions through our website’s contact form, which is just plain dumb. The submission guidelines will tell you what e-mail address to use and, usually provide a subject line the publisher would prefer to see on a new submission.
This is the first impression you’re going to make on the publisher, so don’t try to be cute and come up with some off-the-wall subject line for your e-mail. Sexy threesome in hot water sounds more like spam than a professional submission. If the publisher doesn’t specify what your e-mail subject should be, keep it simply. Submission: Book Title by Your Name will
