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We believe authors are the most important people in the publishing process. Goldenford treats authors accordingly.
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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.
Participants, authors or investors, buy shares in Goldenford. Each share is worth £1 with a minimum investment of £100 and sharing in any profits of the company.
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.
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We use as many channels as possible, usually including:
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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.
Technical enquiries and information from mike@goldenford.co.uk
Telephone (01483) 304234 (14:00-19:00)
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Manuscripts must conform to our standards, as set out here 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 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'.
We do not accept printed or handwritten manuscripts.
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 editing when the document reflows (repaginates) as a result of these changes.
We recommend that authors adopt our standards early in the writing cycle, even before the decision is made to consider Goldenford as the publisher. Templates supporting these standards are available on request for Word and OpenOffice.
Technical enquiries and information from mike@goldenford.co.uk
Telephone (01483) 304234 (14:00-19:00)
standards updated 10:38 Jan 9 2005
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