Sentences with phrase «after draft of their manuscripts»

Agents work tirelessly with their authors to develop draft after draft of their manuscripts to make them the most polished they can be before they create book proposals and send them to publishers.

Not exact matches

After you've processed the great swathes of red typeface from your boss, and sought approval on the next draft of your manuscript, next in line come your co-authors.

After the author perfects the final draft of the manuscript, the editor than approves the work.

We tried to write the first draft of More Than Two by working on it an hour a day or so, when we were both finished with our other work and had a bit of time after dinner, and the math showed us that at that rate, we might have a rough manuscript done in about six and a half years, give or take.

The truth is this: although first drafts will be much better after they are professionally edited, nine out of ten (or ten out of ten) of those manuscripts will remain unpublishable if they have been «edited» in a vacuum by professionals who have never acquired a manuscript at a Big Five publishing house; never negotiated an author / agent book contract; and never published, marketed and sold a finished book.

After I had just over half of my first draft written, I started looking for references on how the manuscript would need to be formatted for the eventual Kindle upload.

After about five months, the author had the first draft of his manuscript, based primarily on his blog posts.