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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

SEND ONLY FULLY EDITED MANUSCRIPTS

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

DO NOT USE ANY FORMATTING (CLEAR ALL FORMATTING)

DO THIS BY SELECTING ALL AND THEN CHOOSING CLEAR ALL FORMATTING

DO NOT USE:

HEADERS or FOOTERS

PAGE NUMERS

TABLES or FRAMES

USE;

PAGE BREAK AT THE END O EACH CHAPTER

IF YOU USE COPY AND PASTE USE THE OPTION DESTINATION THEME (Unformatted mss)

FONT: Use a 11 point Franklin Gothic Book for text

14 pt Franklin Gothic Demi for Chapter Titles

NOTE* All text should be chosen from dropdown font menu

SPACING: Single space your document using the 'no spacing' on the top ribbon tab in microsoft word documents.

INDENTATIONS: For fiction and non fiction,Indent your paragraphs by 1 tab space in. Also indent the first line of all dialogue, unless it is the same character speaking after short descriptive text.

TEXT ALIGNMENT: Distribute your text evenly by clicking top ribbon tab "Select All" and then "Justify Ctrl+J ) or simply use ribbon tab stating the same.

CHAPTERS: Begin each chapter on a new page, and start with Chapter heading 8 spaces down. A correctly formatted manuscript also includes the chapter NUMBER (not alphabet text) Example CHAPTER 6 - And start chapter text 2 spaces down from Chapter Heading

REMEMBER

DO NOT USE ANY FORMATTING other than set out above
DO NOT USE HEADERS OR FOOTERS
DO NOT NUMBER PAGES
USE PAGE BREAK
DO NOT USE TABLES OR FRAMES
IF YOU USE COPY AND PASTE ENSURE YOU CHOOSE DESTINATION FORMAT
AND REMEMBER
- BEFORE YOU START YOUR MSS CLEAR ALL FORMATTING
DO NOT USE RIBBON "B" "I" "U" only use font choices from drop down menu. this is vitally important as any other use of fonts will NOT embed in the pdf document and we need them to be embeddable.

COVER PAGE: Include a cover page with your manuscript. Include the manuscript title, your name, agent contact information if applicable, your contact information, and the word count. Center this information with a space in between each line.

COVER LETTER: Please submit a brief overview of the story, and a bio and curriculum of the author and geographical residential location.

SUBMIT QUERY TO: info@silverbowpublishing.com

NOTE: Do not use "B" in top ribbon of Microsoft word