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Atlantic Bridge
Publishing is a full service, royalty paying epublishing company.
No author represented by Atlantic Bridge Publishing will pay any
fees to e-publish their books. Due to the simple fact of costs being
lower in e-publishing, it affords us the opportunity to offer our
authors higher royalties, quicker turn around times and a broader
scope for promotion.
We pay authors 45% of retail of all download sales.
We ask only for electronic rights for one year.
We will edit your manuscript although we expect authors to self
edit before submission (more details below).
We will convert your Microsoft Word or RTF file to PDF, HTML, Microsoft
Reader, PalmOS formatting, and other formats as they become available
and feasible.
We will provide cover art for your book. You are welcome to
use your own if you are free to do so.
We will assign an ISBN number to your work.
Atlantic Bridge Publishing will stay small yet we will do all that
is financially possible to promote the authors' titles we represent.
Each author will have his/her own page where bio information, picture
and excerpt from book can be found. We will solicit reviews,
issue press releases and promote the titles in a variety of other
ways.
Important: Authors must take an active role in their promotion.
There are many avenues for this and we will be happy to point you
in the right direction. Establishing name recognition will be the
author's prime goal and this is utterly important in the ePublishing
arena,
Please read the entire guideline section. It is vitally important
to follow the procedure exactly. Submissions which do not do so
will not be considered.
Please Read:
We are finding that a large percentage of submissions are
not in conjunction with our guidelines. There is a reason
for why we have these. The process of sorting through, saving
and filing the submissions is a long process. We have found
the system and format which works the best and most efficient for
us, hence the guidelines.
Please understand if your submission is not per the following
guidelines, it will not be considered and we reserve the right to
delete the submission without any action on our part.
We
will accept simultaneous submissions, HOWEVER, if the author is
doing this with the work, we would appreciate that the author notifies
us initially of this.
1. Write a professional cover letter. We don't want to receive an
offhand email. This is your best work, what you have spent many
hours pouring your soul into and you are proud of it. It deserves
a formal introduction. Imagine an outstanding job applicant who
is sending a resume to the personnel department. If that applicant
slaps together a quick blurb to introduce themselves and sends the
package forward, their first impression would be most likely their
last. The same goes for your cover letter, give us a good first
impression.
The cover letter needs to include:
Your Name
Your Home Address
Your Telephone #
Your Email
Your Fax if applicable
Title of Your Book
Genre
Word Count
Include in the cover letter a short overview of your story or subject.
Include a little about yourself, such as your writing background.
Once you have written your cover letter, include in this initial
email a synopsis of your book which describes your story from beginning
to end. Do not send us a synopsis chapter by chapter.
Additionally we ask you to include the first three chapters of your
manuscript. Save this as one file in MS Word or
RTF and attach it to the email. Don't include it within
the email itself. we do not accept any other format
than the two stated. At the beginning of the partial, include
your name, contact information and title of the manuscript.
When you save the file, please save it with the title of the manuscript
included.
WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS
Send your cover letter, synopsis and attached file containing your
chapters to linda@atlanticbridge.net
Our schedule at present is the following, subject to change depending
on workload:
We will notify you that we received your partial submission.
If we want to request the entire manuscript, we will be back in
touch with you. We would be in touch with you no longer than one
month to six weeks.
Next Step
We don't accept submissions from work in progress - please have
your book finished! Self-edit your book - it must be spell checked
and grammatically correct. Present your work as the best job you
can do. We will edit your book but look at the editing process as
a joint effort between you and us.
When we request your complete manuscript we will accept it in the
following format:
12 point Times New Roman
Page break at the end of a chapter
Chapter headings in 14 point "bold" Times New Roman
No page numbers
No headers or footers
Use italics instead of underlining
Use tabs when indenting, not spaces
Save file in Microsoft Word or RTF format only. If the submission
is not sent in either of these formats, we will not consider the
manuscript at all.
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