Submit Your Manuscript To Ken Smith Publishing

PREPARING A MANUSCRIPT FOR SUBMISSION

All publishers will expect to receive a manuscript presented as a professional package, and in a manner that is immediately attractive to the reader, and the following guidelines will help us in our decision making process:

GENERAL STYLE GUIDELINES FOR TEXT AND LAYOUT

The manuscript should be neatly and clearly typed. Handwritten manuscripts will not be considered.

Use A4 paper on one side only.

Have generous margins of an inch to one and a half inches on both sides.

Double line space the manuscript throughout.

The title page of the manuscript should contain the Title of the Work, Author’s name and address and approximate number of words. Do not include any of the manuscript on this page.

Insert an extra line space between paragraphs

Start each chapter on a new page.

Do not indent the first word of each paragraph.

Use the same number of lines per page.

Avoid hyphenating words at the end of lines.

Allow one space after commas, full points, semi-colons and colons.

Allow one space either side of a hyphen when used to separate a clause; do not allow space when simply hyphenating a word.

There should be no space after opened parentheses or closed parentheses, or between speech marks and words.

GENERAL ADVICE ON PRESENTATION

Each page should be numbered consecutively, preferably in the top right hand corner. Do not start each chapter at page 1.

If an extra page has to be inserted, mark it clearly ‘A’ e.g. ‘2A’ etc., and mark it clearly on the page where the additional copy should be inserted e.g. ‘Insert copy from 2A’ at the relevant point in the text.

Authorial corrections to the manuscript after typing should be kept to a minimum. Minor corrections may be made to the manuscript by printing neatly and legibly in black ink, but any more than three per page should be re-typed.

Any manuscript provided on computer disc should have all corrections made and included on the disc. Heavily altering or rewriting the text once the book has been typeset is always expensive, and time-consuming, and should be avoided by the author at all costs. Major alterations at page proof stage will be charged to the author (and the contract will cover this), but this is still not a licence to change the work at this late stage and a publisher can (and possibly will) refuse such corrections to be made.

Above all, the author should be happy with the draft of the manuscript as submitted.

Under no circumstances should any original, expensive or irreplaceable material be submitted at this stage.

If the manuscript is required to be returned, then a sturdy self addressed envelope should be provided, along with the relevant return postage.

Always keep a copy of the manuscript. A publisher, including ourselves, will not be held responsible for any loss or damage to material whilst it is their possession or in transit.