I have a manuscript which I would want published. The theme is about religion as well as spiritual. I need to know if I can trust these online self-publishing companies. Or please recommend one from your experience. Thanks.

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You can't trust any of them. They're interested in your money, not in selling books to anyone other than you. They got the name "vanity press" for a reason. Go to a bookstore. Find books similar to yours on the shelf. Find out who published them. Get those publishers' guidelines and follow those guidelines to the letter. Meanwhile, write a new, different, and better book.

"The theme is about spiritual"??????? Dude, you might want to invest in grammar before submitting a manuscript...

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