as far as submission guidelines go, [ETA: once Gary puts firm guidelines up, which i would heartily recommend unless he wants manuscripts in five different fonts with single spacing & 8 point green lettering to show when the aliens are speaking...] look at this as a professional interaction and follow them to the letter. i've done job interviews and candidate selection in my time - those candidates who don't follow instructions in the selection process are probably not going to follow instructions once they are taken on either. no publisher wants to work with a writer who is going to cause problems, no matter how good the manuscript may be. consider Angry Robot - they had an Epic Fantasy subs open window a few years back. they stressed original Epic Fantasy only. one of the first subs they received was a Batman fanfic. it could've been better than anything Nolan ever came up with, but it went straight in the bin...
So it likely counted as an Epic Fail (which is only a few letters different)....
Might not give an authentic impression of the author. Besides, Douglas Adams comes to mind. Some guidelines might be good, e.g. file format, exerpts or full manuscript.
They should all be a single named style (such as Header 1) and thus a couple of clicks saves a copy with desired different font.
Many sales or few sales? Up in the Top 20 Free Space Opera on Amazon UK for the about two months and about two sales of book 2 per day. Largely positive random reviews on Smashwords. However, I'm not really convinced this is an achievement yet, certainly not making much money. It is pretty much totally un-edited and only superficial proofing. I imagine with some TLC and a re-launch that wasn't completely botched by my amateurish naivity it could do reasonably well - but then every author would say that.
Awesome, thanks - of course it's all too late for me.
