Terms & Conditions

This website and its content are provided for the purpose of describing our services and enabling enquiries. You agree not to misuse the site, including attempting to interfere with its operation, submit fraudulent enquiries, or extract content for uses beyond viewing it as intended.

Submitting a contact or consultation form is an enquiry, not a booking or a binding commitment on either side. A project begins only once both parties have agreed a scope and, where applicable, signed a separate service agreement.

Quotes provided during an initial consultation are estimates based on the information available at the time (such as manuscript length and scope) and may be revised once we've had the chance to review your material in full. A quote is not final until confirmed in writing.

Each project's specific deliverables, timeline and cost will be defined in a written agreement before work begins. Work outside that agreed scope (such as an additional editing pass beyond what was quoted) may be subject to an additional fee, to be agreed before that extra work starts.

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The number of revision rounds included in a given service will be specified in your project agreement. Requests beyond the included rounds may be accommodated for an additional fee, agreed in advance.

You're responsible for providing accurate project information, responding to review requests and approval checkpoints in a reasonably timely manner, and confirming that any material you provide us (manuscript text, source material for a memoir, reference images, and similar) is yours to share or that you have the right to share it.

Ownership of your manuscript, and of the final deliverables produced for your project (edited manuscript, cover art, formatted files, and similar), will be set out in your project agreement. As a general position, we do not seek to retain ownership of your creative work: the specific terms of transfer and any licensing details will be confirmed in writing before work begins.

We treat manuscripts and project details as confidential, sharing them only within your assigned project team. See our Privacy Policy for how information submitted through this website is handled.

Where a project involves publishing or distributing your book through third party platforms (such as Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing or IngramSpark), your use of those platforms is also subject to their own terms of service, which are outside our control. We'll advise you of platform specific requirements as part of that service.

We do not guarantee bestseller status, sales volume, retail acceptance, media coverage, or any specific publishing outcome. We're committed to the quality of the work we deliver (editing, design, formatting and distribution setup), but outcomes in the market depend on many factors outside any publisher's control.

Similarly, we do not guarantee sales figures, follower growth, media placements, or return on advertising spend from marketing services. We commit to executing the agreed strategy and providing honest reporting on its performance.

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These terms are governed by the laws of [State to be confirmed by legal counsel], United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. This section should be finalized once the business's state of registration is confirmed.

Questions about these terms can be sent to hello@wordsworthpublishers.com.