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We believe authors are the most important people in the publishing process. Goldenford treats authors accordingly.
'author' updated 17:29 Mar 5 2006
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
We use as many channels as possible, usually including:
'market' updated 11:21 Dec 29 2004
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.
Technical enquiries and information info
'edit' updated 21:44 Feb 20 2006
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:
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)
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
'steps' updated 19:02 Mar 2 2005
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