ENHARMONIC BOOKS SUBMISSIONS

Our Children’s Books are published under the Enharmonic Books Imprint. They are sold as Interactive flipbooks on the F-flat Books Website and are digitally and physically distributed through a variety of bookstores.

If you have an idea for a musical children’s book or already have one developed, please go through the following documentation before submitting your idea.

Before continuing, make sure you have first read through our general AUTHOR PACKET. Submissions for the 2024 publishing season will be open from January 1, 2024-March 31, 2024. We will only be accepted five total projects.

Submitting Your Project

After reading through the general AUTHOR PACKET, please submit your project through our submission form. If you would rather submit the answers to the prompts via email, you may type the answers to the submission questions and submit them as an attachment to [email protected].

Flip Book Submission Form

Your name *

Your email *

Book / Project Working Title *

Overview of your Project: In 1-2 paragraphs, please write a general overview describing your book, what it will contain, why you are the person to write it, and a description of your target audience or community for this project. *

Project Specifics: Please provide a detailed summary of your book, including the intended length and target audience. *

Sample Text (optional): Please provide sample text from your book (1-2 pages) to show your writing style.

At F-flat Books, we are a hybrid publisher and support authors in finding illustrators and editors. Please indicate if you need help with the illustration and copyediting of your book.

I need help with illustrationI need help with editing

Additional Information: please include any additional information that will help with our review of your work.

At F-flat Books, we are committed to representing underrepresented voices and sharing stories and songs that need to be heard.

Author Demographic information (optional): If you feel you are from an underrepresented community, please share your story below.

Sample Upload: Please use this space to upload the answers to your questions and/or a sample of the book.

Drive Link to sample: Use this space to upload a drive link to a sample of the book.

When will your flip book go live?

Even though we have approved your interactive flip book for publication, submission follows a different timeline than standard resources. Interactive flip books take special attention, so we require all assets as described in the following section a minimum of three months before going live. We will not start to develop your flip book until all assets adhere to the following guidelines.

If you cannot provide assets one month before the tentative release date, that is OK. We want a great final product and prioritize that over any publishing schedules.

Once we have all assets, we will try and give you one week for basic revisions before going live. Any (major) revisions which change the scope of the original project description may add another month to the release date.

Physical distribution will have a separate timeline and will be detailed in your initial intake meeting.

Dimensions / Artwork

Page Dimensions

While we allow flexibility in regards to page dimensions, we strongly suggest square pages (or close to square). This is optimal for a two-page-spread when reading in landscape mode. A square format will also adapt well when viewing single-page on mobile in both portrait and landscape. We find users view our flip books on all kinds of devices and want to be as accommodating as possible.

Please do not include bleed. These files are not meant for print.

Resolution

Full-page Illustrations should be at least 1080 pixels on their shortest side. When in doubt, go with a higher resolution, and we will reduce as needed. Illustrations should be encoded as RGB or colors may differ from your original files.

Fonts

Please use easy-to-read fonts, avoiding any decorative typefaces. Text should be legible on a modern-sized phone screen. If you aren’t sure if the text is large enough, export a page with text to an image and view on your phone. If it is too small for you, it is too small for your readers.

Clickable Elements

If you have included images meant to be clickable, make sure they are not placed too close together to facilitate easy clicking on mobile.

Flip Book Requirements

Note: When the time comes to submit your files, you will be provided with a OneDrive link to which you may upload them. Please do not send zip files or a personal drive link.

1. Basic book in PDF form

Include the cover in the PDF as first and last pages. Do not include any interactive or clickable elements in PDF. Must conform to dimension & artwork requirements in the above section.

2. Annotated PDF noting all audio and interactive elements

Indicate which items should be clickable and which file corresponds to the clickable element. Include any links/external resources which clicked items should redirect to here.

3. Narration files (if applicable)

Each file must be encoded as a 128kbps MP3.
Include an individual audio file for each page.
If two facing pages have narration and you want it to auto-play, you must combine them into a single file. Please note that this has been done for auto-play in the annotated PDF.
Name each file by page and project in the format “page[n]_[project]_narration.mp3“

4. Auto-play Music files (if applicable)

Each file must be encoded as a 128kbps MP3.
Include an individual audio file for each page.
If two facing pages have music and you want it to auto-play, you must combine them into a single file. Please not that this has been done for auto-play in the annotated PDF.
Name each file by page and project in the format “page[n]_[project]_music.mp3“

5. Interactive elements (if applicable)

Any audio file must be encoded as a 128kbps MP3. Video files must be encoded as MP4s.
Include an individual file for each interactive element.
Name each file by project, page, and letter corresponding to annotation in the annotated PDF such as “page5_pricilla _a.mp3“

Please note: ALL page numbers should correspond to the page in the full PDF, which includes the cover and title pages. ALL files should begin with a page number. We will ONLY look at your files and verify the project timeline once ALL of them are uploaded.

Promoting Your Flip Book

You will be provided with a link to a teaser of your flip book which includes the first several interactive pages before prompting purchase. You may also request a line of code to embed the preview on any of your own sites.