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Submit your work today - be published online tomorrow.

We invite all authors to join the rapidly growing community of new published writers.

Authors and Poets

We accept submissions from authors of any genre, including poetry. Our preference lies in the area of new age, esoteric, spiritual, enlightenment, science, paranormal, ufology, metaphysical and other books that spread the growth of universal consciousness. For now we only publish ENGLISH books. We first publish your work as an e-book and make your work as visible as possible to a worldwide audience. The first chapter or segment is displayed to allow readers the opportunity to sample your work. We market this site and its content on the internet to the best of our ability. We do the layout and cover design for those who require it, at a nominal cost. Once you have sold 1000 downloads as an e-book, we reserve the right to offer you the option to publish your work as a real "printed book" in the USA, UK, South Africa, and possibly the rest of the world. You can choose to grant us such rights by signing our online publishing agreement.

Layout and cover design:

If you cannot submit your work in a finished laid out format and/or do not have the capacity to submit a design for your book cover, we have the following services available:
Book layout service: $1 per page (if submitted in MS Word, font size 12pt)
Cover design: $100 (approx R750 for authors in South Africa)
These fees are payable upfront to Zuluplanet.com

To get started there are 3 steps to take:
     1.Create an Authors account (Read submission terms (can only proceed to step 2 once agreed)
     2.View your publishing contract, accept and move on to step 3.
     3.Submit your work with our submission template.

Submission terms & conditions

Independent Authors

1.	All submissions are subject to final approval by Zuluplanet.Com management before it is published online.
2.	Zuluplanet.Com reserves the right to refuse any submission.
3.	In such a case the author will be notified by email outlining the reason why the work has been rejected.
4.	Authors will then be allowed to make the necessary amendments to their submissions as recommended and resubmit their work.
5.	Poetry must consist of a Volume of work, not less than 50 pages either PDF or MS Word.
6.	All work must be submitted fully edited, spell-checked and proof read; ready for online publishing.
7.	Unedited and untidy material will reflect negatively on the author, the publisher and all other participants on the website.
8.	We cannot offer editing and proof reading services at present but we expect to make these services available in the near future at an additional cost.
9.	Every author will be allocated a personal account which they can monitor at any time to the exact status of their sales in their account.
10.	Each individual work submitted will be subject to a once-off initial loading and hosting fee. You will not be charged for this service upfront. It will be paid for by the first ten downloads of your eBook which will be retained by Zuluplanet.com to cover these costs.
11.	Please submit your work in ready-to-publish low resolution PDF format.
12.	If you cannot submit PDF files we will only accept Microsoft Word documents as an alternative.
13.	Please ensure to include the cover for the book.
14.	Cover design should be in low resolution PDF or Jpeg format - 72dpi - between no more than 250 kilobytes.
15.	Include all credits which you would like to appear alongside the e-Book. Like editor , designer and any other credits.
16.	Every book must be accompanied by the following information: a. Max 3 line subtitle/short description of book. b. Storyline and/or synopsis of 200 - 400 words.
17.	The synopsis will be used in a shortened form in the listing and in its full form alongside the book itself.
18.	Payments to publishers, authors/account holders will be made quarterly, and will only be made once the balance of the account is larger than USD 200-00 or ZAR 1000-00.
19.	All payments will be made by bank cheque or electronic bank transfer - you choose the option. Please ensure that you enter the correct address to which you want your cheque posted or bank details.
20.	Authors are to set the recommended selling price of their work - Zuluplanet.Com will make the final determination on price.
21.	Royalty paid to the Author is 30% (thirty percent) of the selling price on any websites owned by the PUBLISHER and 30% (thirty percent) of the NETT revenue received by the PUBLISHER from other websites that are allowed to sell the WORK.