Self-publishing – providing your copy

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f Self-Publish-Books are to design your book, you should provide your text unformatted, that is without attempting to lay out the pages the way you expect that they will appear in the finished book.

This applies for example to typing headings all in capitals – it is much easier to capitalise a heading if the design warrants this than it is to do the reverse to a heading that has been supplied as all capitals.

The one exception to this rule is where you want an extra paragraph space. In this situation you should insert this extra blank line. This is often used where, for example, there is a movement of time or location but it is not a new chapter.

You can supply your manuscript by email attachment or on CD or DVD.

Copy / manuscript checklist

		Do
		Leave the text ragged on the right.
		Indent each new paragraph that you want to be indented with one tab space.
		Add an extra line return only where you want extra paragraph space.
		Apply bold and italic where required.
		Do not
		Insert headers, footers, or page number.
		Use forced page breaks.
		Justify the text.
		Use tabs, except at the beginning of each new paragraph that you want to be indented.
		Use more than one space between words and sentences.
		Design the pages.
		Use the Enter or Return key at ends of lines – only at ends of paragraphs.
		Use hyphens to break words at the end of lines.
		Use ALL CAPITALS.

Copyright and libel
It will be assumed that you own the copyright to the manuscript supplied and that, where applicable, you have obtained written permission to use material referenced from work other than your own, and have made suitable acknowledgement in the text. Similarly, it will be assumed that you have ensured that there is nothing libellous in your manuscript.

For more detailed information on copyright visit the UK Copyright Service:

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If you are in any doubt about issues of libel in your book you should take legal advice or at the very least check out what information is available on one of the many writers’ forums on the internet.

Contact Information for Self Publish Books

Address: Irvinehill Farm, Stewarton, Ayrshire KA3 3EL, Scotland, UK

Telephone: 01294 850217.
You can contact us during normal business hours and also during the evening and weekends. If there is no one in the office calls divert to a mobile.

Email:

Uploading files: Files up to 5mB can be emailed to us.

Fax: If it is necessary to fax us, this can be done by arrangement. Please telephone first.

If you need to send larger files to us you can do this via www.mailbigfile.com – it’s free. If you click on the link the website explains what to do, using our email address above. If you have several small files that together come to more than 5mB it is probably more suitable to compress them together into one file using compression software and then send via mailbigfile.com. If in doubt call us!

For further details on all of the above plus a contact form to email us from click here.