Send your letters and proposals like a pro and increase your chances of getting published. Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript makes it easy by featuring full-size examples of how to present virtually any type of manuscript.
Covering every part of the manuscript submission package, this guide shows you the dos and dont's for creating persuasive but professional correspondence and submission materials, including: query letters, title pages, cover letters, tables of contents, outlines, author biographies, cover pages, endorsements pages, synopses and reply postcards.
There are also examples you can follow for submitting by fax or online, in addition to tips from respected agents and editors who help you avoid the mistakes that shout "amateur!" Spend more time writing and less time worrying about your manuscript presentations. With this guide, you'll gain the confidence you need to format and submit your manuscript quickly and effectively.
"Perfect margins and ideal spacing won't prevail over dull, poorly written work," counsel the authors of this book. Still, why would you let sloppy formatting obscure an editor's first encounter with your brilliant words? Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript will help you, yes, format and submit articles, nonfiction books, short stories, novels, scripts, poetry, even greeting cards. There's no reason, the authors say, to "mangle or otherwise abuse" your work in order to get it to fit a format, but whenever possible, you might as well give the editors what they want. It's all here: queries (electronic, faxed, and otherwise), sidebars, market analyses, manuscripts, treatments, etc. Each element is handled through the use of examples, submission tips, formatting specs, and "other dos and don'ts." Strewn throughout are words of wisdom from those on the submission-receiving end, among them Robin Dolch, a senior editor at ICON Thoughtstyle. "We can always tell when people are going to be very hard to work with," Dolch says. "It's when they're willing to do very little work up front before getting a contract." --Jane Steinberg
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Poorly designed query letters and manuscripts are a first point of rejection in a very tough business. FORMATTING & SUBMITTING YOUR MANSCRIPT is a must have reference book for every aspiring writers. The editors and writers of Writer's Digest have been in the business for many years and they know the necessary steps to avoid rejection as non-professional.
This important step is vital to your career. The well illustrated examples spell the correct and acceptable style for submissions of a novel,... more info
Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript:
Great resource for this aspiring writer. I am just approaching attempts at publication, and am grateful for this guidance on my way.
The end-all be-all of formatting guides.:
This is probably the best guide to document formatting I've seen yet. Of course, half the staff at Writers Digest magazine wrote it! Most of them are writers or editors as well, so it only makes sense that it would be good.
I looked at several different formatting books in my search for the best. Many of them got great reviews when they were released. The problem is, most of them are more than 5 years old. With the publishing business changing as rapidly as anything else these days, you need an updated... more info
Easy, Simple, Great Guideline!:
This book is a great guide for those at the submission process! I would never have known that there were general guidelines to follow when submitting your fiction, etc and probably earned myself rejection letters because of it. But with this guide, I know that at least I used industry standards upon submissions.
This book also has great examples of query and cover letters. I recommend this to anyone new to the submission process of publishing!
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