Steps to Publishing
FROM INSPIRATION TO CREATION!
• These are the steps to publishing your book!
• The music must either be your own original work, licensed, or in the
public domain to be published
• You submit the music to us in audio or manuscript form
• You prepare any text, preferably in a Word document
• You decide on the page size for your book: 9x12 (Industry Standard),
8 ½ by 11 (letter-sized), Octavo, or other
• You submit any diagrams, illustrations, photos or other visual images,
or we can design them for you
• We transcribe your music if necessary
• We edit your text manuscript
• We assist you in choosing a page layout, overall design and fonts, and cover art
• You choose the binding style (saddle-stitch, perfect bound or spiral)
• We engrave your music and layout and format your book
• We do final editing
• You specify the number of copies to be printed or 
we give you a final PDF
Visit the Samples page on our website as a reference