When you set up your book for submission, use Microsoft Word©, 12 size font, and Times New Roman style, black ink without exception. Use italics for the names of books, newspapers, magazines, movies, song titles, and other such similar items. Foreign words or phrases, Latin legal terms, and Bible verses all use italics. Direct quotes copied from books and other authors’ materials, or previously published sources, should be indented, and again put the text in italics. Keep bolding to a minimum and only when it is absolutely necessary. Use single spacing and not double spacing. Do not use drop caps for chapter beginnings or for any other special reasons. Do not number any of the pages you submit. Doing any of these things interferes with the book set up we use for your manuscript. All of these items will have to be undone, and such corrections and changes are time consuming for the BFP set up folks, and it will cost you, the author, unnecessary expenses.
BFP prefers receiving manuscripts that are well written and submitted with a minimum of grammatical errors, typos, misspellings and punctuation mistakes. The works of other authors that may be used in the text of an author’s manuscript should be noted and cited as such. Full credit is always given to those writers whose material is used to support an author’s work. In some cases, it may be necessary for an author to obtain special written permission, by a living author, for the use of his or her material. Some publishing companies own the rights to other authors’ works and will probably charge an author for the use of such material.
An author must take care of this business before submitting such material to BFP. If printed without permission, and published in an author’s work, and discovered, that author may incur some nasty repercussions by the folks who hold the rights to the other author’s work. Always cite and credit another author’s work. If you get charged for using it, well, consider not using it! Find something else to meet your needs. BFP wants good material with substance, subject matter that will make a difference, when or if, it gets published and read.
