Donegal Bay Publishing

Donegal Bay Publishing Authors Guild

The Basics:

Become a member for free when you submit to us your first manuscript

Fellow guild members will read your manuscript, filling out an objective Donegal Bay Publishing evaluation form

This evaluation form will help us determine which manuscripts are developed enough for publishing

Manuscripts that receive approval from your fellow guild members will be reviewed by Donegal Bay Publishing staff

Select manuscripts will be published by Donegal Bay Publishing

Manuscripts not chosen for print publishing will be published online, as long as certain basic content requirements are met

Manuscripts not chosen for print publishing may be printed at a discounted rate for Guild members

Guild members receive a free author webpage through our website, and link to/from members' manuscripts.

There are no monetary costs to Guild members

Join an organization dedicated to finding and developing people with writing talent. DBP's Authors Guild works as a team to get you published. Guild members submit their manuscripts, review potential books, write reviews, and help decide what gets published. This is an opportunity of a lifetime for writers. Get in on the ground-floor of this new publishing company.

What you get as a member of Donegal Bay Publishing's Authors Guild:

peer review by fellow Guild Members
gaining valuable experience as a literary review person
gain exposure as an author through Guild publicity
get a free author web page on Donegal Bay Publishing’s website with links to your online content
online publishing guaranteed to guild members who follow our procedures and requirements
print publishing available to manuscripts that are chosen to be published
discounted self-publishing always available to guild members (be your own boss!)
select guild members will be highlighted along with excerpts from their works in a monthly newsletter produced by DBP
This newsletter is sent to our network of independent bookstores for them to distribute to their customers.

How to Join/Submit a Manuscript...

Donegal Bay Publishing's Authors Guild is easy to join and costs you nothing. Membership is probationary until the first document is submitted to Donegal Bay Publihsing. Once your first document is received, whether or not the Guild decides to propose your book for publishing, you will be a full member of the Guild and entitled to all of the benefits that are designed to help your writing career. Simply click here to be directed to a membership application page/manuscript submission form.

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Donegal Bay Publishing Authors Guild - Updated May 2008

We have updated the DBP Authors Guild. We are temporarily converting to mostly electronic publishing for general interest titles. This is a way for new authors to get their works in the public eye. We will proof and edit selected book length documents and place them for sale electronically on our websites, as well as on amazon.com. Books not chosen to be for-sale documents will be placed on our websites as free electronic documents. These will be published electroically as-is, without proofing and editing, as we do not have the resources to proof and edit every single submission we get. This currently is a very small market, but we expect electronic books to continue to gain in popularity, just as other electronic media have replaced standard media. Electronic books that receive favorable reviews online may be considered as candidates for standard publishing.

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