format guidelines - overview

The Words

The literary content of an ULTIMATE book consists of;

• True, non-fiction, original stories
• "Words of Advice" shorts 

If you are not the copyright holder and/or do not control the rights to the material you are submitting, please tell us who is. No anonymous or author unknown submissions are accepted.

Click the link for complete guidelines for stories, words of advice.

 

The Images                 

While our editors will take cues from literary content in selecting the visual content, we are not looking for photographs to accompany a specific story. It is not necessary to have stories for photographs you wish to submit and vice versa. 

However,  if there is an interesting, funny, or moving fact behind the photograph that you think would be of interest, include a short 1−2 line explanation when prompted during your upload on our HCI Books ULTIMATE Image Gallery.

If you are not the copyright holder and/or do not control the rights to the material you are submitting, please tell us who is. No anonymous or author unknown submissions are accepted.

For complete guidelines for photographic content click here.

 

File Names

It's important we are able to identify your work as yours by the name of your file. Please use your "save as" or "rename" function of your software to give each file a unique name that reflects the following format: 

LastName,FirstName,ID 
 

The "ID" is a designation you will recognize later. For example, it could be  an abbreviated story title, ie: "Walk" in the "Park", or the original image name of your photo. Of course, when you save it as one of the file types we accept, the name will be appended by the valid file extension for that type of file

Doe,Jane,WalkPark.doc 
or  
Doe,Jane,DSC_3605001.jpg 

Characters forbidden in filenames are:  
$  /  \ \  :  *  ?  "  '  <  >  |  ` &

 

File Types Accepted

Word processing: The following standard word-processing file types are accepted;

Submissions using our online submission form must be MS Word Office 2003 .doc file types.

Submissions using our submissions email process can be sent as
.doc (MS Office Word 2003, .docx (MS Office Word 2007), wps (Corel WordPerfect) or .wks (MS Works) files

 Images: 

.jpg, .jpeg and .tif (for resolution and compression click here)

 

Information to Include

If you use our on-line submissions process, you will be prompted to provide essential information. If you are using an alternate method to submit your work, please preface the beginning of your submission with the following information;

1. your full name, address, phone & fax (if applicable)
2. your e-mail address
3. information on where and when your material was previously published (if applicable)
4. 1–2 line synopsis of your story
5. approximately 50 words of biographical information