Blue Eyed GreenPublishing

For writers

You have the idea. What happens next?

Blue Eyed Green Publishing is documenting the route from an original idea to a professionally controlled edition through its opening programme.

Publishing process

The work before the book

Notes. Voice memos. Half a manuscript. A story you cannot leave alone.

A book rarely begins as a perfect file. It begins when someone decides the idea matters enough to shape. The stages below show the process BEGP is establishing through its first publications.

Follow the opening programme

General submissions are not currently open. BEGP is not presently offering paid publishing packages, manuscript assessment services, representation or guaranteed publication. Please do not send a manuscript unless requested.

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From first thought to finished book

Eight stages. No mystery.

  1. 01

    The idea

    Clarify the reader, purpose and central promise before adding pages.

  2. 02

    Manuscript development

    Shape structure, argument, character or narrative while change is still affordable.

  3. 03

    Editorial assessment

    Establish what works, what does not and the right sequence of interventions.

  4. 04

    Editing

    Move through developmental editing, copy-editing and proofreading without confusing their jobs.

  5. 05

    Design and production

    Create the cover, interior and digital files appropriate to each edition.

  6. 06

    Publication

    Lock metadata, identifiers, files, proof decisions and distribution routes.

  7. 07

    Distribution and launch

    Make the book findable, available and accurately represented.

  8. 08

    Life after publication

    Maintain metadata, rights, stock, reader resources and future editions.