Preparing your submission may include stating the age group as a target audience. Please research this in advance. Look at the length of other books in the category you are interested in and then decide what age and length is best for your book. We are quite flexible as we look at the story rather than the word count in most cases.
Our royalties are based Australian industry standards. Before accepting a contract you can review the terms of the agreement.
We are traditional publishers. That means when a manuscript is accepted we pay for all production and publishing costs. You might find as an author you have some marketing experiences, particularly for yourself as a brand.
We don't pay for editorial BEFORE a submission is accepted. So we encourage you to do your hard work editing etc prior to submission. Authors can pay for appraisals with our editing team, but this is not part of submission. If accepted for publication we incur all editing, publishing, art, design and printing costs and you receive royalties of sales.
What is different about Living Stone Books?
Living Stone Books is a traditional publisher paying authors royalties on all sales, but will be a primarily digital list. By printing based on demand and interest we avoid wastage and returns in a bookselling industry where books not sold in a bookstore are returned and pulped. Our main sales will be focussed at ebook, audiobook and print as required. Books aimed at schools will be printed and accessible to young people who still, on the whole, prefer a printed book!
