Thank you for your interest in having your book carried by A Novel Escape Bookstore! We are committed to promoting local authors and books about Western North Carolina, Appalachia and the South. We will consider books on any subject, fiction or non-fiction, from local authors that have been published in the past year.
While we wish we could carry every book that is presented to us, we must be very selective of the books we carry. We carry only high-quality books that are well written and produced and of interest to our customers.
To submit a book for sales consideration, carefully review the program details below, complete the application and submit it to the store with a copy of your book. Incomplete applications submitted without a physical copy of the book will not be considered.
To be eligible for consideration your book must:
- Books must be professionally edited and designed.
- Books must have the title and author on the spine. No books with stapled or spiral binding will be considered.
- Have cover images of good quality. Images and text cannot be pixelated and all text must be legible.
- It should be appropriate for our store; i.e., it should not be in a genre that we do not stock or promote.
- Pricing must align with comparable titles. For example, we likely will not take an adult fiction paperback book that retails for more than $19, as that is generally the highest price for comparable titles.
- We do not accept books published by CreateSpace, a division of Amazon.com.
We will make every effort to examine your book and evaluate its potential for selling in our store as soon as possible. Please be aware, however, that we usually have a large number of books to consider, and there is simply not time to review them all within a short period. We appreciate your patience!