Original work & Editing process

Original work

Writers' contributions must be their own original work and must not infringe any existing copyright. (Writers will indemnify us against any breach of that warranty.) Work submitted should not be under consideration for any other publication.

Editing process

We will edit the contributions to maximise clarity, plain language, civility and rigour and to promote consistent easy-to-read and jargon-free style. Writers will comply with our Style Guide.

In submitting to us, writers agree they will work quickly and constructively with us and our editor to all these ends, and that we have the final say.

Where we notice them, we will edit out sweeping assertions from a writer’s main argument or rebuttals such as “Advocates for [the opposing argument] often twist the facts…” so please don’t make them.

To make the books as readable and visually compelling as we can for a mainstream market, we will not include sources and footnotes in the physical books or, when we eventually publish them, ebooks.

However, writers must still provide us with the sources, citations & references for all their quotes and assertions of fact. This is so we can give them to their opposing writer to assist them in writing their rebuttals, and so we can post them on the webpage for the relevant book for readers who wish to check them or access further information.

So we can be quick-to-market and keep down the price of our books, we don’t expose our writers’ contributions to a peer-review process or specific fact- or source-checking by our editorial team.

Instead, we rely both on each writer's own integrity, the self-interest and cross-check that will come from exposing their sources to their opposing writer as well as to the broader public through the book itself and our webpage for the book, as well as the writer’s warranty to us that all their statements are correct, complete and not misleading. If a writer actually does twist the facts or make errors, and we spot this, our policy is to bring it to the writer’s attention and edit it out.

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