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We think it's important for our authors to be really clear on how publishing with us works. This way you're happy, we're happy and we are all working happily together with the same goals and ambitions for your book.

The first step in your journey is to request your free author guide, by clicking on the link on the right hand side. This guide takes you through the whole process in great detail, and will help you define your publishing and bookselling goals.

Below is a step-by-step, simple guide to the beginning processes.

1. Browse around our site and learn about our Imprints.

2. Request your Free Author Guide.

3. Upload your work to our Submissions Department to consider your work for our various imprints. You are not obliged to do this at all, but if you do, our team will be in touch within 2 working days with our initial comments on your work. Please do be aware that the majority of our Diamond Authors are currently sourced through our Undiscovered Authors annual competition and we are more likely to suggest another imprint. However we have this year taken on a number of titles as Diamonds that simply came to our submissions department and do monitor all titles for potential upgrade.

4. Receive your Author Guide and once you have had a read, start to think about what you want for your book, and the level of help you want us to give you.

5. Get in touch with our author team and tell us what you want - all details on this are included in our author guide or if you get lost, just email authors@discoveredauthors.co.uk

Once you have your publishing goals defined, your imprint sorted, your publication deal and any editorial and marketing services chosen then we're ready to go...

Your Author Manager will be assigned and once contracts are signed and payment received we will start the work we need to do on your book. You will be supplied with a publication schedule tailored to you, with clearly defined timescales for you and us to stick to.

If you have any questions, have a look through our quick links pages on the right, or check out our popular questions page. If you're still confused about anything, just get in touch with us by emailing help@discoveredauthors.co.uk

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