Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions govern your use of the Juniors Book Publishing website and any services you order from us. Please read them before placing an order. By using this website, submitting an enquiry, or accepting a quote from us, you agree to these terms.

1. Who we are

Juniors Book Publishing ("we", "us", "our") provides creative and production services for children's books, including writing, editing, illustration, cover design, formatting and publishing support. In these terms, "you" means the person or organisation ordering those services, and "author" has the same meaning.

2. Our services

We provide the services described on this website and set out in the quote or project summary we send you. We are a service provider: we help you prepare and produce your book. We are not a traditional publisher, we do not acquire rights in your work, and we do not pay advances or royalties.

Descriptions on this website are a general guide. The services actually included in your project, and their price and timescale, are the ones stated in the quote or project summary you accept.

3. Quotes, orders and scope

We will give you a written quote setting out the services, deliverables, price and indicative schedule for your project. A quote is valid for 30 days unless we say otherwise. A contract is formed when you accept the quote and we receive the agreed first payment.

The deliverables listed in the quote are the full scope of the project. Work that falls outside that scope — for example, additional chapters or illustrations, a change of creative direction after a stage has been approved, or a new format — is additional work. We will quote for it separately and begin only once you approve the extra cost.

4. Prices and payment

Prices are quoted in US dollars and, unless stated otherwise, exclude any taxes, duties or bank charges that may apply to you. Larger projects are normally invoiced in stages against agreed milestones.

• Payment is due by the date shown on each invoice.
• We may pause work on a project while an invoice is overdue.
• Final files are released once the project has been paid for in full. We may share watermarked or low-resolution previews before then so you can review the work.
• Third-party costs — printing, ISBNs, stock images or fonts, platform or distributor fees — are separate from our service fees unless your quote expressly includes them.

Refunds are dealt with in our Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms.

5. What we need from you

We can only work to schedule if we receive what we need from you. You agree to supply the manuscript, reference material, brand assets, approvals and feedback the project requires, within a reasonable time of us asking.

If a project is held up by a delay on your side, the schedule moves accordingly. If a project goes quiet for more than 90 days with no response from you, we may treat it as paused and ask for a restart fee to resume, or close it and invoice for the work completed to that point.

6. Your material and the rights in it

You keep all rights in the manuscript, artwork, characters, names and other material you supply to us. By sending it to us you confirm that:

• you own it, or you have permission to use it and to let us work with it;
• it does not infringe anyone else's copyright, trademark or other rights;
• it is not defamatory, unlawful or otherwise unsuitable for publication; and
• you have the necessary permissions for any real people, logos, song lyrics, quotations or third-party images it contains.

You are responsible for the accuracy and legality of the material you give us, and you agree to cover any loss we suffer because that material turns out to infringe someone's rights or to be unlawful.

7. Ownership of the work we produce

When your project has been paid for in full, ownership of the final deliverables we created for it — the manuscript text, illustrations, cover artwork and layout files — transfers to you, together with the right to publish, print and sell your book.

Two things sit outside that transfer. First, working files, drafts, rejected concepts and our own tools, templates and working methods remain ours. Second, anything licensed from a third party — a stock image, a typeface, a piece of software — reaches you on that licensor's terms, not as an outright transfer.

Unless you ask us in writing not to, we may show non-confidential finished work in our portfolio and marketing. Tell us at any time and we will take it down.

8. Reviews, revisions and approval

Projects run in stages, and each stage needs your review before the next begins. The number of revisions included at each stage, what counts as a revision, and how to request one are set out in our Revision Policy, which forms part of these terms.

Approving a stage means the project moves on from it. Changes to an approved stage after that point are additional work under section 3. Please check names, dates, spellings and factual details carefully before you approve: once a book has gone to print, correcting an error that was approved is a new job and a new cost.

9. Publishing, platforms and results

Where your project includes publishing support, we help you prepare and submit files to the platform or printer you choose. Those companies are independent of us and apply their own rules, review processes, fees and timescales.

We cannot and do not guarantee that a platform will accept your book, how long its review will take, how your book will be categorised or displayed, or how many copies it will sell. Nothing on this website should be read as a promise of sales, reviews, rankings or commercial success.

10. Confidentiality

We treat your unpublished manuscript and the details of your project as confidential. We share them only with the team members and contractors working on your book, who are bound to the same obligation, and where we are required to by law.

11. Using this website

The text, images, illustrations and design on this website belong to us or our licensors. You may view and print pages for your own use. You may not copy, republish or use them commercially without our written permission.

You agree not to misuse this website — for example, by attempting to gain unauthorised access to it, submitting false information through its forms, or sending automated or bulk enquiries through them.

12. Our liability

We provide our services with reasonable care and skill. We are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill.

We are not responsible for loss of profit, loss of sales, loss of business or loss of anticipated savings, or for any indirect or consequential loss. Except where the law does not allow it to be limited, our total liability for any project is limited to the amount you have paid us for that project.

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

13. Ending a project

Either of us may end a project in writing. If you end a project, you remain liable for the work completed and any third-party costs committed up to that date; our Refund Policy explains how that is calculated. We may end a project if an invoice stays unpaid, if the material you supply breaches section 6, or if continuing would be unlawful.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time, and the version published here is the one that applies. The terms that govern your project are the ones in force when you accepted your quote, so a later change will not alter a project already under way.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which we are established, and the courts of that state have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.