Our Submission Guidelines
We accept text manuscripts and book pitch proposals written in English
only. We accept manuscripts in paper and electronic file formats including .txt, .rtf, .wps,
.doc, .odt, and .pdf. If your chosen file format is not in that list, contact us for instructions before submission.
SleighFarm Publishing Group recommends authors use LibreOffice as a manuscript
editor for electronic copies. The LibreOffice productivity suite may be downloaded at no cost here.. Typewritten
or handwritten manuscripts may be transmitted by fax or copies of the
originals physically shipped to us, however SleighFarm Publishing Group
is not responsible for loss or damage of printed manuscripts so please
do not ship your original or sole copy of a printed manuscript to us.
SleighFarm Publishing Group does not accept artwork depicting nudity,
nor manuscripts containing overt violence or illegal sexual
practices. We reserve the right to reject materials containing
descriptions of bodily functions and extreme fetishes such as - but not
limited to - coprophilia, necrophilia, or urolagnia.
All
manuscript and book pitch submissions must contain the proposed title
or working title, author's name and a copyright notice in this form:
"Title"
by Author Name
Copyright (C) 2011 by Author Name. All rights reserved.
in
the first few lines of the text of the manuscript or pitch
proposal. A copyright notice simlar to the third line of the
example may be included in artwork file metadata or in a watermark for
artwork submitted for review rather than publication. Obviously,
the year of copyright should reflect the date the manuscript was written, and
the author/artist name should be the name of the author (actual name or
pen name) or artist who created the submission. Inclusion of a
copyright notice is to protect the author or artist, should that person have
concerns we might inappropriately use, distribute, or otherwise
misappropriate their work.
Submissions should not contain works copyrighted by others in whole or
part (for example song lyrics, copyrighted documents or books,
reproduction of artwork, etc.) unless the submitter has a written
release bearing the signature of the copyright holder authorizing
submission of the copyrighted works
on their behalf. SleighFarm Publishing Group, at our
discretion, may request a faxed copy of the signed release for our
records. Pictorial submissions
of recognizeable persons may require a model release signed by those
persons appearing in the picture, and photos including trademarked
logos or images may also need a signed publication release from the
trademark owner.
Regardless of the files submitted to us, press-ready files generated by
our service group
from author/artist input are produced in Portable Document Format
(PDF), and in
some cases JPEG. As mentioned above, we use the LibreOffice
productivity suite for editing manuscripts, and will provide manuscript
markup files in open document format (ODF, ODT). E-books
generated for publication by us will be in ePub
format. On request we can produce an electronic book version
compatible with Amazon.com's electronic book reader.
