Not exact matches
So in a post
last week, I somewhat casually mentioned the fact the word «vagina» was being edited out
of a
draft of my new
book, «A Year
of Biblical Womanhood,» to be released by Thomas Nelson in October.
The
last time I visited Hungary was in the summer
of 2009, as I was working on an early
draft of The
Book of Summers.
This will give the beta readers a full five weeks to read your
book; the
last four weeks
of your first
draft stage and the first week
of your editing stage.
Lots
of people use temporary files (I put a rough
draft up there when I did the pre-order for my
last Dragon Blood
book).
A ghost writer creates the entire manuscript
of a
book — first word to
last — by interviewing the author at length, often taping and transcribing the results, writing
drafts for the author to approve, rewriting when requested.
And
last but certainly not least, it's a fantastic exercise to sit down and
draft a handful
of queries for
books you haven't written — and even
books that you might never write!
This isn't just for court; this is when you've submitted a rough
draft to a copyeditor and found out they only did the first third
of the
book and the
last chapter, or when you paid a cover artist $ 500 and they returned one proof
of concept, then stopped answering emails.
The cheapest
of all the editing services and usually the bare minimum for any
book getting ready for publication, proofreaders are hired to do a
last pass on your final
draft.
This is still only a first
draft and I'll need to do the proper beta reads and revisions on it, but it's progress and I know my loyal fans have been patiently waiting for this next installment so it might help them wait a little longer for the
last life
of the
book to be written.
I've been busy reading one
of his non-financial
books the
last week: Moneyball, which is about baseball and how the Oakland A's came up with a new way to
draft players based on statistics.
Last year, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson submitted a
draft proposal for coal ash rules to the White House Office
of Management and Budget, coal lobbyists began
booking potentially illegal meetings with the White House, en masse, so as to clog OMB's review
of the EPA proposal.
My co-author, Carolyn Elefant, and I are in the midst
of re-writing the
last and final
draft of our
book about social media for lawyers, which will be published by the American Bar Association in just a few months.