Uploading Your Manuscript

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CHAPTER 1 FROM PROPOSAL TO PUBLICATION
CHAPTER 2 WRITING YOUR PROPOSAL - ABOUT YOUR BOOK
CHAPTER 3 WRITING YOUR PROPOSAL - ABOUT THE MARKET
CHAPTER 4 WRITING YOUR PROPOSAL - MORE PROPOSAL DETAIL
CHAPTER 5 WRITING YOUR PROPOSAL - CATEGORIES AND METADATA
CHAPTER 6 THE CONTRACT OFFER
- Contract Levels
- Contract Terms
CHAPTER 7 AUTHOR SERVICES
CHAPTER 8 THE EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION PROCESS
CHAPTER 9 MARKETING YOUR BOOK
CHAPTER 10 RECORDING YOUR MARKETING
CHAPTER 11 THE CONTACTS DATABASE
- Using And Adding Contacts
CHAPTER 12 USING ONLINE MARKETING SERVICES
- Online Marketing Services
CHAPTER 13 USING SOCIAL MEDIA
CHAPTER 14 USING BLOGS
- Bloggers
- Tours
CHAPTER 15 SELLING YOUR BOOK ONLINE AND ON AMAZON
- Online Sales
- Amazon
CHAPTER 16 SALES TO BOOKSHOPS & ORDERING HARD COPIES
CHAPTER 17 ROYALTIES AND FINANCE
- How We Calculate Royalties
- Royalty Payments
APPENDICES

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Your Manuscript is polished, formatted, and stylistically consistent. It’s time to upload it and begin the editing process.

You will need:

Not a problem – please just update the Expected Date and click Save Changes.

Once you have saved your changes, you will have to reload the webpage to see the new date.

Visit your Production page.
Go to the Workflow section. Click on the arrows to the right of Manuscript Upload and Approval to open this section.
Click + upload a file, add a description, choose a Type and select Manuscript.
Click Choose file and select the file from your hard drive.
Click upload file.
If you have images for your manuscript, add them too. Click + upload a file, add a description, choose a Type and select Picture.
Do not add Cover ideas here. For that use the Cover Workflow section below.
Click Save Changes.
Click Approve to notify the editor.
Whenever you upload something to the database – if you can then see it there on the page, it has worked. If you cannot see it, it has not been loaded.

This is your last chance to check that you have formatted and prepared your manuscript correctly Not doing so now, may result in delays later in the Production Process.

Click the three boxes to tell us you have read all the required information:
1. I have reviewed the applicable sections within Preparing Your Manuscript and Copyright questions. Please note: It's highly important that you read through Copyright Questions and make sure that any quotes you have used (from books or songs or poems etc.) are permissible.
2. I have reviewed the applicable sections within Uploading Your Manuscript
3. I have noted any manuscript requirements in Author Stylesheet

Now you’re all set, click on Approve/Confirm – the Editorial Manager will be notified and the Production process begins.

You have one more chance to change the manuscript, when you check the copyedited manuscript.

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