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We believe authors are the most important people in the publishing process. Goldenford treats authors accordingly.

What an author gets

• A contract
• Publication of their work
• Access to our marketing strategy/processes
• A networking base
• Full support from the company

What an author undertakes to do

• Prepare their book in accordance with our editorial and technical standards
• Help with the marketing process
• Stay with Goldenford or pay the contractual let out fee

'author' updated 17:29 Mar 5 2006

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Authors are responsible for their work up to the publishing stage. They will need to find an editor, or Goldenford will put them in touch with one. 

Goldenford will undertake to publish an agreed number of books and do all it can to sell them.

Authors will have a contract for each book, negotiable starting from our standard contract, but it will not be the normal 'three book deal with advance.'

Successful authors who start with Goldenford are encouraged to stay with us, to help those further down the ladder.  In that way, Goldenford can continue to bring new authors to the marketplace.

'difference' updated 17:30 Mar 5 2006

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We use as many channels as possible, usually including:

• Direct selling to local bookshops
• Through our own website and our mailing list
• Internet, including informal listing with Amazon and Abebooks
• Specialist organisations (eg for a book on the Crimean War, we would contact the Crimean War Research Society to see if they would review/market it)
• Readers clubs etc
• A distributor to promote books to small bookshops.
• Book fairs, writing weekends, and other venues
• Large wholesalers

'market' updated 11:21 Dec 29 2004

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Books must have been through a professional review process. You must provide us with evidence of the process you have used and how this has enabled you to improve your work. We may choose to ask for an additional editorial step if the directors feel that your book would benefit.

Correcting electronic quality on a substantial document is time-consuming and error-prone. To avoid this, use our technical standards from the beginning.

Authors editing responsibilities

• proof read by you and others
• consistent formatting (eg speech marks)
• spell checked (add proper names to your dictionary to allow you to check consistency)
• if a spelling (apart from proper names) is not in the computer dictionary, accept it only if you can find it in one of the Oxford dictionaries
• document conforms with our technical standards

Technical enquiries and information info

'edit' updated 21:44 Feb 20 2006

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Manuscripts must conform to our standards, as set out at the time of submission. This is to minimise costs for our authors as well as ourselves. You will need to convince us in the exceptional case where there are good grounds for departing from the standards. We will still require consistency.

When we first receive your book manuscript (electronically only please), a number of directors will read it and jointly decide whether it meets our criteria. We publish what the directors - all writers themselves - consider to be enjoyable, marketable books which other publishers cannot 'fit into their lists'.

Next, we review quality. Manuscripts which follow our standards can be finalised quickly. Those that do not can take many hours to finalise. If our directors find a significant number of problems, the book will be returned for revision.

In the production process we will:

• add leading title pages and trailing company pages
• add a table of contents
• add page numbers
• set print font face and size
• adjust margins to the target book size

Technical standards

Our technical standards are designed so that your book does not need substantial manual editing when the document reflows (repaginates) as a result of production changes. Therefore, the standards on the following three pages are mandatory (these standards are maintained by an associate on a different web site)

• word processing standards
• style sequence standards
• cover standards

Our standards are set out in the context of OpenOffice Writer, which we recommend as being better than Word for long manuscripts. However, authors are free to use any word processor, including Word, providing the manuscript can be opened in Word or in Writer with the recommended style sequence intact.

We recommend that authors adopt these standards early in the writing cycle, even before the decision is made to consider Goldenford as the publisher. Following the standards will benefit all authors, irrespective of the publisher you use.

'standards' updated 23:20 Feb 20 2006

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• Contact Jennifer on (01483) 562722 for an informal chat
• Review our editorial and technical standards
• Ask for a copy of the draft contract
• Buy one of our books

Our list is full at the moment and we are not currently accepting submissions. We may be able to accept some manuscripts in 2009, in which case details will appear on this website. Please do continue to visit us.

'steps' updated 19:02 Mar 2 2005