![]() Note, though, that we still only make an offer to publish under our Partnership model for about 10% of submissions made to us. ![]() Our partnership publishing model combines the best from commercial publishing and self-publishing, where we bring an experienced publishing and publicity team, a commercial infrastructure and market penetration, and you invest a proportion of the overall costs in your manuscript. This is a unique publishing arrangement that gives authors (especially unknown authors) a combination of a book published, distributed and marketed by a professional publishing house coupled with part author financing. ![]() Note that our Partnership proposal costings are based on the costs of self-publishing through our sister imprint, Matador authors thus have the assurance that any author contribution reflects accurately the costs involved. The Book Guild will always fund some of the costs of publishing under our Partnership Publishing arrangement, we do not offer a wholly author-financed option (i.e. If we are prepared to take on a book as a partnership project, we shall make a proposal that includes the financial contributions from The Book Guild and the author. Our partnership arrangement usually includes a financial contribution from both The Book Guild and the author towards the cost of publishing, with the author financing anything from 25% through to 75%, depending on the level of risk we can take on a manuscript. If we can’t offer a traditional publishing arrangement for a new manuscript, we may offer a partnership publishing arrangement, but only if we believe the manuscript has commercial potential and is of a suitable standard. Traditional publishing enables us to maintain a position in the marketplace that benefits all the books that we publish. Each year, The Book Guild brings out conventionally published titles that we think will sell well in the mass market, and we have an excellent record of sales. Due to the high level of risk in conventional publishing, books generally have to be considered to have great market potential. Under our traditional publishing model, we bear all the expense of publishing a book, and we may pay an ‘advance’ on royalties to the author. Details on how to submit are given opposite. All submissions will first be considered for a traditional publishing model if we do not feel that a manuscript is suitable for our traditional publishing programme, we will then consider it for some form of partnership publishing. Submissions from agents are accepted but an agent is not essential, we accept author submissions direct. The company operates both traditional publishing and partnership publishing models, but always with an emphasis on quality of production and achieving sales.Īuthors are invited to submit manuscripts in all genres for consideration. As a trade publisher, we take on new titles that we feel have commercial potential only. The Book Guild has acquired a solid reputation for publishing books across all genres since its establishment over 35 years ago. Marketing & Promotionįor information on how we market and promote our book to retailers and the media, take a look at our information booklet below. The Book Guild Ltd is part Troubador Publishing Ltd, an independent publishing house with a solid reputation for quality, so all Book Guild authors benefit from the market penetration and publishing expertise of an established trade publisher. ![]() The company is well respected by retailers and other publishers alike, and our books are sold UK-wide through bookshops as well as online retailers. We shall acknowledge receipt of your manuscript within 72 hours and will reply within two to three weeks of submission with feedback. If you would like us to return your manuscript, please enclose an SAE with the correct postage. Please do not send the only copy of your manuscript or photos as we cannot be held responsible for loss or damage of any material. Printed manuscripts should preferably be typewritten. Please bear in mind that our email servers cannot handle very large attachments, so if you have photographs or illustrations to accompany your work please send them via a file transfer site like or on a USB device by post. Please email your submission, synopsis and biography to us at (with the subject line marked as ‘submission’, followed by the title of your book) or send a USB device by post. As well as your book’s manuscript, please send a synopsis and a biography about you. Your manuscript text should be saved in MS Word with all chapters in one document or we accept submissions in PDF format. Information on The Book Guild and how we work is given opposite. Details on how to submit to us are given below – we prefer electronic submission, but accept submissions by post. We accept manuscripts direct from authors or via agents in all genres. The Book Guild is an independent publisher with an eclectic list in both fiction and non-fiction.
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