Terms of Service and Author Bill of Rights

Your decision to work with Gatekeeper Press constitutes your acceptance of our terms.
Gatekeeper Press is a publishing service provider offering the services listed on our Pricing page. The prices for these services may be amended from time to time.

IN ORDER TO RECEIVE UPDATES ABOUT OUR SERVICES, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOGGING INTO OUR AUTHOR DASHBOARD PERIODICALLY AND KEEPING A VALID EMAIL AND MAILING ADDRESS ON FILE.

A) Author Rights and Obligations

As an author with Gatekeeper Press, you will:

  1. Be assigned an Author Manager as your main point of contact until 30 days after publication. Subsequent communications will be with our Post-Publication Support team.
  2. Retain 100% of the rights to your material and any ISBNs we assign to it. This includes all files we create for you once payment has been made in full.
  3. Have 100% control over the file-creation and editorial processes.
  4. Receive 100% of the royalties earned on the sale of your material. You can see how royalties are calculated here and your payment options here.
  5. Be entitled to distribution via our worldwide distribution network (“Distribution Partners”).
  6. Have access to monthly sales reports in your Author Dashboard generated directly from each of our Distribution Partners.
  7. Be able to order your book at its Author Copy Cost and have it shipped to destinations worldwide. Orders cannot be canceled once placed.
  8. Have assurance we will never share your manuscript or other intellectual property with third parties, other than our Distribution Partners, or to promote your book through social media.
  9. Warrant to us you own or control the necessary rights to your material and will indemnify us for any costs connected with any claim inconsistent with this warranty, or any other claims that may arise from the publication of your material.
  10. Reimburse us for any outstanding balance due to book returns within 30 days of receiving notice in accordance with our Book Returns Policy.
  11. Have the right to withdraw your material from sale with us at any time for any reason.
  12. Be entitled to a satisfaction guarantee on all file-creation services (editing and marketing services excluded). Our satisfaction guarantee includes the following:
    1. We will continue working on your project until you are fully satisfied.
    2. Your approval of files, including front cover designs, sample layouts, and illustration sketches will be considered as confirmation of your satisfaction.

B) Author Code of Conduct

When working with Gatekeeper Press, you agree to:

  1. Be respectful and professional in all communications.
  2. Not engage in abusive, harmful, or offensive language.
  3. Consolidate emails whenever possible.
  4. Designate a single spokesperson if your project has multiple contributors.
  5. Abide by our production timelines and communication timelines. And understand your responsiveness, the complexity of your project, and special requests may affect these timelines.

C) Gatekeeper Press’ Rights and Obligations

  1. We reserve the right to refuse any manuscript and remove any book from distribution or our social media pages that:
    1. Expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
    2. Is involved in any type of legal dispute with a third party.
    3. Otherwise jeopardizes our brand in our sole discretion.
  2. We reserve the right to terminate our relationship with you for violations of our Author Code of Conduct. In the event of termination, all files will be returned to you in accordance with Paragraph A(2) above, and you will not be precluded from republishing.
  3. We reserve the right to set off any balance due to us against your royalties. If, after applying the set-off, an amount is still due to us, we reserve the right to recover that amount.
  4. Our distribution service has been rendered once we have made available and delivered your material to our Distribution Partners. If your material is rejected, delayed, or displayed incorrectly by any Partner for any reason, Gatekeeper Press will have no liability to you.
  5. Our Author Copy service has been rendered once your books have been delivered to a reputable mail carrier. If your books are lost, damaged, delayed during transit, and/or delivered outside of our estimated delivery timelines, Gatekeeper Press will have no liability to you. If your books were printed with manufacturing defects, we will refund or replace the defective books in accordance with our Policy on Defective Copies.
  6. We will provide notices via email and in your Author Dashboard of any print cost increases or other changes emanating from our Distribution and Printing Partners. Gatekeeper Press works with third-party manufacturers (“Printing Partners”) and Distribution Partners to fulfill print-on-demand orders, and we have no control over changes they may implement from time to time. Our Authors always receive 100% of their royalties.
  7. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, if you pay for services by installment, those payments will be automatically drawn on the same day each month until paid in full. In the event of an unsuccessful payment, we will automatically attempt to process the payment again with notice to you. We reserve the right to suspend your book’s distribution with notice to you for failure to make timely payments.
  8. We reserve the right to modify this Agreement with notice to you in your Author Dashboard account.

D) Additional Considerations:

  1. US taxpayers that receive more than $10 in royalties in a calendar year will be mailed a 1099-MISC Form by January 31 of the year following the reporting period.
  2. Any claims arising out of or relating to our Terms of Service shall be brought in a state court of competent jurisdiction in Florida. You consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state courts of competent jurisdiction in Florida.
  3. In the event of any claims arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the prevailing party has the right to collect reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees incurred in enforcing this Agreement.


Rob Price
Founder & CEO
Gatekeeper Press
Where Authors Are Family