- Open your text. You’ve been provided with a link to a Google Doc. It contains the base service text for the guide you’ve chosen, in your jurisdiction. You will edit it directly.
- Edit the text. Make edits to the document so that it matches as closely as possible, word-for-word what’s being said in the service offered in your parish. Be sure to edit terminology in litanies, prayers, hymns, etc, as needed. See Guidelines for Customizations for more information.
Note: Please don’t edit font styles or sizing (other than for visual ease), spacing, paragraph breaks, or any other formatting (bold, italics,etc). These things are set, and as such, will end up being more work for you, and then more work for us, as we will have to reformat the text.
- Double check your edits. Once you have truly completed your edits, checked it, double checked it (typos, etc), and gotten relevant approvals on your end (are others involved that may have input?), notify us. We understand that changes may need to be made as we go through the process, but as much as possible, please do not notify us that your edits are complete until they truly are.
- Notify us. Send a brief email to Laura at lscott@stacollege.org when you are finished. Simply saying “all done!” is fine.
- We will then review your document and contact you with any questions or clarifications.
- Once everything looks good on our end, we will let you know via email, and we will begin implementing your customizations into a watermarked proof. This should take three business days. We may contact you with any questions that arise during this time.
- Approve the proof. Once the proof is completed, we will email it to you for approval. We will make changes as needed until you approve the proof. Once you are happy with the proof, a simple email reply saying “approved” is sufficient.
Note: Order links to the final service guide will not be provided until you have approved your proof.
- Order services guides as needed. Once approved your custom service guide will be uploaded to Amazon for publication, and we will provide you with the order link, which should be active within 24 hours.
Note: If you need to make small changes over time (contact information changes, for example), we should be able to do it free of charge. However significant changes will request another customization fee, considering the time it takes to reformat the text.