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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 are available on request for Word and OpenOffice supporting these standards.
Technical enquiries and information from mike@goldenford.co.uk
Telephone (01483) 304234 (14:00-19:00)
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Editorial and Technical Standards (standards) updated 10:38 Jan 9 2005 (Text server version 7.64.c)