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PUBLISHERS! This is your Template Page. Copy it to your system and use any html editor to create a new Publisher's listing, or to update your old listing. If your old listing is in our gray "free" format, simply attach that page to your submission, and fill out this page as if you are making a new listing, as there is no way to "adapt" the old gray listing format to the new one. Please feel free to change any attributes of this page you want -- especially background color, fonts, layout, or nature of the presentation. Alternatively, use your own layout instead of this one. Please substitute your own logo for ours above. The only thing we ask is to fill out as many of the items listed below as you are able to do, because those details make the basis for a listing useful to authors looking for publishers.

PUBLISHER INFORMATION (and Divisions)

Publisher Name: Subdivisions / Parent: Scope of Publications: Fields of Specialization: General Contact Info:

List here your name and if a subsidiary or division of a parent Expand on subdivisions and parent if necessary List scope of publications, fields you publish in, general categories (e.g. science, non-fiction, fiction, etc.) List fields you specialize in, particularly for new submissions, or your hottest fields right now, or those fields you want to expand on. List General contact information here (specific divisions will follow).  State how you prefer to be contacted (submission data comes later).

YOU CAN PRESENT MOST INFORMATION IN A BIG TABLE, IF YOU PREFER (see example below):

Categories	Titles / year	Accepting MS?	Which Division	Contact Name & Number
Gen. Fiction	100	not till 2003	Parent	Ed. in Chief -- Phone 123-456-7890
Gen. Non-Fiction	500	YES	Parent	as above
General Trade	120	quota full for 2001	Trade Div	Ed. Trade Div. -- Phone 098-765-4321
Literature	35	in special fields	Parent	May Jane (Humanities) -- Phone xxxx
Science	170	YES	Trade Div.	Science Editor -- scied@yourpubco.com
Computer / Tech	65	YES	Technical Div	Tech. Editor -- jmassey@techpubco.com
Philos. / Religion	50	only top quality	Parent	May Jane (above)
Health / Medical	40	special fields	Technical Div	Tech Editor (above)
Garden / Homes	25	YES	Parent	Ed. Trade Div. (above)
Crafts / Self Help	15	YES	Trade Div	Ed. Trade Div. (above)

MANUSCRIPT AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (INCLUDING CONTACTS & GUIDELINES)

Manuscript Details: Payment Structure: Marketing and Selling: Detailed Contacts: Submission Timing:

1. Which new concepts are you most open to; which do you need? 2. Do you require Exclusive submissions? If so, give period and terms. 3. State how author can get (or download) a detailed guide to manuscripts. 4. Explain details of each submission category (e.g. in table above). 5. List contacts for initial manuscript submissions (e.g. in table above) and then separate contacts to follow through on manuscript progress. Specify your general terms -- advance payments, royalties, do you buyout, do you publish on consignment, specify author rights and percentages (remember there are no agent fees in any transactions via our site), do you sub-consign, and also be clear on exclusivity of MSs, submissions, texts vs. presentation, etc. State how you will promote the book, how you advertise, what is the instant circulation rating; also specify if you give a performance guarantee. List the individual contacts that an author can use to submit, check on, and track the progress of the manuscript. Also state if an already published book is handled differently than a raw manuscript. (NOTE: It is not adequate to merely send authors to a website where they fill out an impersonal "submission" form that is summarily ignored by your company. This is part of the antagonistic "old model" of publishing that has no part on our Publishers.Net site. Be open to authors if you want their best works!) Approval duration, total time to publishing, time to first printing, time to first sales, and time to first royalties. Also specify volume factors if you publish or sell on demand -- and what percentage or schedule the author gets.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON SPECIAL CATEGORIES ABOVE FOR SUBMISSIONS

Main Submissions: Secondary Interest: Additional Information:

Give the author a description of the hottest fields for new submissions. Give them enough narrative detail here so as to avoid submitting inappropriate content. Many good writers can write TO the content you want. Give them your preferences, and you may pull off some really good impromptu works. List other categories you are interested in, but specify what the author has to do to get an exceptional MS in these categories. Suggest a form/response strategy where you propose an idea, they tell you what they can contribute to it, and you tell them if that is something you would be interested in. Give any other detailed information not listed in the table or categories above. Be specific and complete -- don't rely on a standard form to impart uncertainty.

Links to Your Site(s):

At the bottom of your page you can post links to specific data on your site(s). But please don't give only those links and no detailed information on this page. EVERY large publisher's website is a total put-off for authors, or antagonistic or condescending toward them, as if the publisher is "above" the author. WRONG! Authors are your bread and butter.  You can be anatagonistic as you want on your own site, but please don't carry it over to ours. This site is for one-on-one communication with competent authors who can deliver the "goods" you want. Talk to them here, and use your links only to supplement the data given here.