The publishing process

 

Please note, all the proceeds from the sale of your book are yours. We don't keep anything until you have made £30,000 from your book.

 

Submissions

You can submit your book to us digitally typed any way you like. It can be a novel, biography, autobiography, history, science, academic, poetry, drama, it is entirely open. We will get back to you with a decision as quickly as we can. We always reply.

 

If we approve your manuscript then it will normally take around 3 weeks for it to be ready go to the printers.

 

 You needn't worry about mistakes in it when you submit it, just send it as it is, but when you give us the version to be typeset it must be the final one, no alterations after that.

 

The details of the  process are as follows

After we have your final manuscript we will typeset it, and then send it to you. You will check it for typesetting errors. There should be no alterations to your writing at this stage. Any typesetting errors will then be corrected by us, and a final proof sent to you to check we have corrected all the errors you noted.

 

The cover

We  will ask you beforehand for your ideas and will then design the cover with them in mind. It is expected that you allow the designer to do his or her job without undue interference and that the decisions on details will be made by them as part of the process of designing. It is not helpful for the author to ask for adjustments to the font, or layout as this is a professional matter, and is best left to the designer.

We are a professional publisher, and this is not self-publishing. The design of the book and cover is our job.

 

We will ask you to write a very short biog. of yourself for the back cover, as well as a blurb for the book, which we will use as the basis for what is printed on the rear cover.

If you want us to help wth the blurb we can do that.

 

We of course  supply the ISBN and register the book with Neilsen. Neilsen is the means by which the book can be ordered in a bookshop, using the ISBN.

 

Then it goes to press. It will normally take not more than 3 weeks for us to send it to the printers, and they usually take two further weeks.

 

You will pay the printers invoice, and you will decide how many books you want to print.

 

100 copies will be sent to the distributors from which they will fulfil orders. If you want to print fewer you can, but Gardners specify a minumum of 100. If you don't want their services you can print as few as you like.

Six copies will have to be set aside for British Library and the Bodlean Library, and other national libraries archives.

 

You will be given all of the remaining copies of the book (from whatever number you chose to print) .

Any questions, phone; 01304 449413 or email info@authorslibrarypress.com