How To Submit Your Book

Printing your book is easy, but your manuscript must be formatted first. We can do this for you, or you can do it yourself.

If we're doing the formatting, submit your manuscript in Word with no formatting other than page-breaks before the start of each new chapter. Our fees start at $100, but we may charge more—after checking with you first— if your book presents a tricky formatting job, with many fonts, graphics, or numerous headings and subtitles.

If you're doing the formatting and using a PC, you might try submitting it as a PDF file. You can download a free conversion program, CutePDF Writer, from www.cutepdf.com. Make sure your pages are set to 5.5 x 8.5 inches, with left and right margins 1 inch each, and top and bottom margins .8 of an inch. If you use a footer for your page numbers, put it at least .7 of an inch from the bottom of the page. Put the page numbers in the right order, so that odd-numbered pages are on the right side when the book is opened. If you use headers for your name and/or title on each page use the same spacing, .7 from the top of the page. If you want your book to be a different size, we can handle up to 8.5 x 11 inches, but there may be additional fees. We're set up primarily for trade paperbacks.

For your cover, you can send us a finished design or you can send us graphics (photos, illustrations) to use with suggested colors and fonts. Most of the time there is no additional charge, but complicated design jobs may add additional charges. We will check with you first before doing work that requires additional fees.

Once we have digital versions of your cover and formatted manuscript on disk, printing your book is simple. We can have your books ready to ship in a few days, sometimes a day or two. The system relies on a new technology for "perfect bound" books, the standard in the publishing industry for trade paperbacks