Our Process
Paragraph about DEP’s submission process, why we as hybrid publishers give the author more creative control and higher profits for them in the end by having them invest in our publishing package up front.
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Submit Your Manuscript
2 submission Paths
Proofreading
Production
Distribution
Submit Your Manuscript
Waiting on Robin, Jess & Maria’s feedback for our submission requirements
2 submission Paths
Explain 2 paths briefly
Proofreading
Proofreading before sending to layout
Production
This includes the custom design of your cover and manuscript, as well as preparing your book for the printer.
Distribution
Getting our book out there- in bookstores, online, social media. advertising, PR
Submit Your Manuscript
Explain 2 gates, explain 2 paths.
Explain our goal in this process.
Explain the genres we are starting out with: memoirs, family history, mind/body/spirit/metaphysical
Memoirs
Family History
Mind/Body/Spirit
Two Gates
Gate 1 includes the publishing path and the coaching path.
The publishing path brings you to gate 2.
The coaching path provides feedback and steps to take in order to pass to gate 2. The coaching path will include developmental and copyediting, author support
Gate 2 brings you to 3 stepping stones.
The first stepping stone is for manuscripts we feel meet all our submission requirements as well as fits into our DEP guidelines for the quality of literature we want to publish and is ready for proofreading. On this step, we will provide an assessment to the author. This assessment will notify authors of our impressions of the manuscript and the level of editorial work we feel it requires. All manuscripts get a proofread as part of our publishing package. If your assessment suggests a copyedit, we encourage but do not require that this work be done by Deep Earth Press. We offer copyediting at the rate of $??/hour.
The second stepping stone is for manuscripts we are interested in, meet DEP guidelines, but need more than a copyedit in order to get it ready for publishing. We will provide an assessment with suggestions and steps to follow (point to our coaching path). This may include- Redirections, sensitivity reads, or trimming the length
The third stepping stone is for manuscripts that meet DEP guidelines, but need more work, such as developmental edits, to be ready for the publishing path. We will provide an assessment and make recommendations (point to our coaching path)