Copyright 101: Welcome to your introduction to intellectual property law. When you're done with this, you might not be able to charge $300 an hour for your legal services, but you will know what every working writer needs to know about copyright. Here goes:

Ideas can't be copyrighted. It's the expression of the idea that's covered. If you have a great idea, and you tell it to the guy sitting at the table next to you and he uses it to write a bestselling book that turns into a blockbuster movie, you're sad and he's rich, and there's nothing you can do about it. So keep your lips closed until you've got something down on paper.

21st Century Publishing Group was started over 15 years ago by Dr Lee Fredrickson, Dr. James combs and Dr. Ed Hindson. The 21st Century Publishing Group has four imprints, 21st Century Press, 21c Publishers, Viewpoint Press, and sonship Books. Each of our Christian publishing imprints serves a diferent purpose and each has a different audience.

As an author who wants to be published you are faced with a few options.

Self publish... The first step is obtaining ISBN numbers without which you are an author, rather than a publishing company. Next comes sitting down and deciding what you are hoping to accomplish by starting your own publishing house. Take a lesson from publishing industry numbers and then, before you give up all hope, contrast the results with working as a trade author.

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Submission Information

We look for unique, quality manuscripts that are well written and will have a positive message for the reader. We expect our authors to be able to easily and plainly express themselves, in both writing and speaking. Please include the following with your submission:

Here are the general guidelines for manuscript submission to 21st Century Publishing Group:

Type of Books we Publish

Our publishing group currently has four imprints, 21st Century Press, 21c Publishers, Viewpoint Publishers, Sonship Press. 21st Century Press: We currently are accepting scholarly works, Christian living, personal growth, finances, leadership, prophecy, fiction, devotional, critical church issues, commentaries, under 21st Century Press. 21c Publishers: is an imprint for health related books. Sonship Books: is a children and youth publishing house. Viewpoint Press: If your book is controversial in nature, we might consider it for Viewpoint Press.

The managing editorial and production departments oversee the production of your book: they supervise the transformation of your manuscript from a Word Document into a finished book. These departments are at the center of the publishing process.

Here at 21st Century Press, we edit, copyedit, proofread, and typeset on disk. So, let’s start at the very beginning.