Submissions, Permissions, and Rights

What we publish

Our primary focus is relationship improvement through conflict resolution. Our core areas are:

• divorce and coparenting

• high conflict disputes

• high conflict personalities

• workplace conflict

• advanced conflict resolution

• personality disorders

• vicarious trauma

• parenting

• health and wellness

• dialectical behavior therapy wellness

• self-help

• child abuse, domestic violence and sex trafficking prevention

• complicated relationships

• Empowerment Script™

To inquire about rights of any kind (subsidiary, translation, foreign, serialization, book club, other performance), reproduction, or to request permission to use an excerpt or to reprint copyrighted material, please write a letter of inquiry addressed to us below. Your letter must include:

• Title of the book
• Full name of the author of the book
• Specific material in the book you'd like to use, including page #'s
• The way in which you'd like to use the material. Please be specific.
• Your name, address, phone number and email address

Please send your written request via the contact form below or by written request to:

Unhooked Books
7701 E. Indian School Rd., Ste. F
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

HCI Press publishes books with a focus on the cutting-edge field of high-conflict disputes in business, law/courts, family, divorce, education, government and the community.

HIGH CONFLICT INSTITUTE PRESS

Directed primarily at professionals who deal with high-conflict disputes or people (the most difficult "difficult" people), HCI Press titles provide solutions to the increasing problem of high-conflict personalities in society.

IMPRINT, UNHOOKED BOOKS

Our imprint, Unhooked Books, focuses on books that support the goal of improving complicated relationships, whether in parenting and co-parenting, romance (dating and marriage), at work and business, and the community in general.

IMPRINT, BRAIN BRIDGE BOOKS

Our other imprint, Brain Bridge Books, is solely focused on books written in Empowerment Script™.

We value manuscripts that solve problems in a fresh, cutting-edge manner. If your manuscript matches our priorities and goals, please forward the following materials via the contact form below. You should be aware at this stage, before submitting your manuscript, that we give priority to authors who have a large social media following.

• 2-3 paragraph summary explaining the purpose of the book and the problem it will solve

• table of contents with 2-3 sentences explaining the purpose of each chapter

• intended audience

• why this book would be of interest to our readers

• sample chapters (2 or more)

• your author bio, including education, other publications, etc.

• your social media reach and speaking history

• other books that are similar to yours or in a similar category

We will get back to you with questions or a decision in approximately 6-8 weeks. Between 40,000-50,000 books are published in the U.S. each year. Competition is stiff. A great book that solves a problem, alleviates pain and confusion, increases productivity and profit, and helps people get unhooked from bad relationships and negative thinking, coupled with a large social media following, are given top priority with us.

Thank you for considering publishing with us.