What are Trafford Publishing's content guidelines?

Follow these general guidelines to help ensure that your manuscript and materials meet our evaluation standards:

Copyright and Original Content

• At least 75 percent of your book’s content must be original and created by you.
• Quoted poetry and song lyric content cannot be longer than eight lines.
• Quoted article content can be no longer than three sentences or 10 percent of the article.
• Quoted book content can be no longer than 500 words.

Libel and Privacy

To avoid libel and protect the privacy of living people referenced in your book, you must:

• Change or remove the author’s name and/or the names of people referenced in the manuscript or materials.
• Change or remove the names of locations, businesses, organizations, educational establishments, etc. where the events in the manuscript and/or materials take place.
• Remove images (including front and back cover images) that reveal the identification of people or locations referenced in the manuscript and/or materials.