Manuscript Submission Process and Policies
The process that will transform your manuscript into a printed and bound
book is launched at what is called The Entrepreneurial Vision™ Mastermind.
In this mastermind, the people who will be working diligently to guide your
book successfully through the production process, including the creative
director (who is primarily responsible for The Entrepreneurial Vision™,
design and schedule) and the designer (who is primarily responsible for
cover art, typesetting, and proofs), discuss such matters as the
entrepreneurial aspects the manuscript needs, exactly how cover art should
be handled, whether any essential items from the manuscript package are
missing, and the design of the published book. Soon after The
Entrepreneurial Vision™ Mastermind your Author Relations Manager will
contact you, in order to ask any questions we might still have about the
manuscript and to tell you what the production schedule is going to be.
At this point the creative director will have the designer prepare the cover
layout, and will be closely monitoring his or her work. Depending on the
extent of any recommendations, the swiftness of the schedule, and several
other factors, you will receive a cover proof to review.
Just about the time we are finalizing the cover of your book, you will get
the page proof of the front matter (which includes the title page, Contents,
Preface, etc.) to review.
The next step in the production process is typesetting. The resulting page
proof, which will look pretty much like a published book, is sent to you for
a thorough review, as well as to an experienced freelance proofreader. The
proof may be sent in stages, and you will have a week or so to scrutinize
each stage.
You will return reviewed page proof to the production supervisor, who will
oversee the generation of revised proof, which will contain any changes you
marked as well as typos and design errors discovered by the proofreader.
While the page proof is being checked, the index must be prepared, if
desired, either by you or by an experienced freelance indexer. (If a
freelancer prepares the index, you must pay for it.) At an early point in
the production process, the creative director will discuss the index with
you, and can give you guidance if you decide to do it yourself.
Within a few weeks of this, your completed book will be sent to the printer,
and about a month later, printed and bound copies will start being shipped
to our warehouse and thus will be available for purchase. You are now a
published author. Congratulations!
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