The publishing process

 

Please note, all the proceeds from the sale of your book are yours. We don't keep anything.

 

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.

 

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

 

Please make sure that the manuscript you finally give us is the one you want to be typeset and published. The time for corrections is before typesetting, not after. You should refer to our typing guide to avoid unnneccessary work for yourself or your proofreader or the typesetter. You can submit it as you like, but when you give us the version to be typeset it must the 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 other alterations to the text 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.

 

Proof reading. To be done BEFORE giving us the final text to typeset. We strongly advise that you proof-read your manuscript yourself, or get a friend to do it. Getting it done professionally is expensive- we do offer that service. Your text must be proof-read before you give it to us for publication. You can make your initial submission to us before proof-reading if you like.

 

The cover

 

If you have opted for us to cover design the cover as part of your package, the designer will ask you beforehand for your ideas and will then put them into practise. 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.

 

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.

 

If you opt to be under the Authors Library Press imprint, we supply the ISBN number and register the book with Neilsen. Neilsen is the means by which the book can be ordered in a bookshop, using the ISBN number.

 

If you do not opt to be under the Authors Library Press imprint you must supply the ISBN yourself. We will generate a barcode for you, for the back of the book.

 

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.

 

Six copies will have to be set aside for British 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) except that we will retain 6 copies; these are to send to the British Library and the Bodlean Library, and in case we need them for review copies.

Any questions, phone; 01304 617449, or 01304 449413

 

Notes

The author must provide one final version of their book, that has been thoroughly checked by them for spelling and grammar.

Please read our notes below on typing to avoid mistakes and extra costs at the typesetting stage