Sentences with phrase «on manuscripts»

The most common thing I do for my clients (I'm a book doctor) amounts to extensive revision letters on their manuscripts.

The fact is, you spend so much time on your manuscripts that you can't see it objectively.

She also has a number of more seasoned clients who requested Roz to be a professional pair of eyes on manuscripts in progress, and intellectual property companies who hire her to guide authors through revisions.

I'd suggest you discuss the principles in your critique group first, before doing actual work on manuscripts.

I had four or five agents say no initially, and I racked up 160 + rejections on manuscripts.

Aspiring authors spend months or even years working on their manuscripts and don't want to hand over their «baby» to just anyone.

Because the time spent on manuscripts varies widely between authors with different levels of experience, we will look at submitted projects for line editing and proofing and edit ten random pages before finalizing our agreement.

Some writing mothers are able to sit down for five or ten minutes during the day and make progress on their manuscripts.

F.) Publisher can not have charged a fee to consider, read, submit or comment on manuscripts.

That said, I've had several clients go on to get agency representation after we worked on their manuscripts, so clearly it wasn't a detriment in those cases.

Acquiring editors today have fewer resources with which to work on manuscripts and have to go into those editorial - board meetings with high - grade goods to convince their publishing houses to acquire a book.

We do the final proofing / layout / formatting / publishing on manuscripts that have been edited and in their final draft stage.

I use Track Changes every time I edit for indie author clients so that they know exactly what I have changed on their manuscripts and so that they can easily revert those changes if they don't agree with them.

The publisher, within the past five years, may not have charged a fee to consider, read, submit, or comment on manuscripts; nor may the publisher, or any of the executives or editors under its employ, have offered authors self - publishing services, literary representation, paid editorial services, or paid promotional services.

It's the kind of work editors used to do on the manuscripts they acquired: what Maxwell Perkins did when he edited a book by Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

I have done developmental editing on manuscripts about subjects as disparate as eighteenth - century phrenology and the US - UK special relationship in James Bond novels.

I have interacted with well - known authors who have had endless complaints about the level of control that the editorial teams exert on their manuscripts.

I always loved working closely with authors on their manuscripts and it's an increasingly important part of the role of an agent.

Freewrite allows authors to work on their manuscripts with or without internet and offers many different ways to upload documents either through cloud connectivity (Dropbox, etc.) when logged into Wi - Fi or by connecting the device to your computer.

As well, run - on manuscripts are also often a sign of an author who has not developed editing skills.

By the late 1970s, she was a senior editor at William Morrow and was unable to spend much time working with authors on their manuscripts — a prevailing industry trend.

Sometimes I suspect that agents tell authors to spend all their time on social media in order to cut down on the manuscripts in their slush pile.

JAFFERY: I've been reaching out to Muslim writers for a couple years, and had been working with a few on their manuscripts in order to get them in the best shape before I took them into acquisitions meetings.

Agents can offer editorial input on manuscripts, help format the manuscript for the different e-platforms, help with uploading, strategize about pricing, and so on.

MicroRNA (Chandan Sen and Mingyu Liang, co-Section Editors): This section focuses on manuscripts that address all aspects of microRNA research including basic biology and translational and clinical studies.

We thank Xiang Gao of Nanjing University for providing EGFP - transgenic mice and members of the Ying Jin laboratory for valuable discussions and comments on the manuscripts.

As of July 1, 2016, Clinical Psychological Science places a particular priority on manuscripts that are interdisciplinary and bring the best available basic science from within psychology (e.g., social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, cognitive psychology, affective psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience) and outside of psychology (e.g., sociology, anthropology, genetics, microbiology) to bear on our understanding of psychopathology.

To expedite decisions on manuscripts, both manuscripts and figures are converted to PDF files for initial evaluation and review.

This system works best for journals that receive a lot of manuscripts and maintains its efficiency and quality by having a small number of people making the final decisions on the manuscripts.

I want to send out queries for articles, finish the endnote cleanup on my manuscripts, update my website, investigate writing contests, and just GET ORGANIZED!

He is not held to duplicate the efforts of specialists, just as a historian of the nineteenth - century French novel is not expected to duplicate the labors on the manuscripts of Balzac or Flaubert, the stylistic analyses of Stendhal, or the research on the sources of Victor Hugo or Gérard de Nerval.

Kregel Publications recently sent me a review copy of Philip Wesley Comfort's new study resource, A Commentary on the Manuscripts and Text of the New Testament (Get it on Amazon or at CBD.

It's for my family to live in and for writers to use as a creative space to work on their manuscripts.

Her new book, Business as Unusual (Thorsons), was published in the United States in January, and she's already working on another manuscript.

Whether you're pitching your proposal to agents, waiting as your agent pitches your proposal to publishers, or standing by as editors and designers and marketing departments work their magic on your manuscript, the process is long and the wait can be frustrating.

On a given day he might move from conducting a worship service, to making medical rounds in his hospital, to doing construction work on a new leprosy - treatment center, to practicing the organ, to working on a manuscript.

After successfully defending his dissertation in 2009, he did additional work on the manuscript before arranging its publication.

Standing close by the testimonies are the sermons, many of which survive only as spidery outlines on manuscript pages; the yellowed minutes of the band, class and society meetings; and, above all, the songs.

After three years of hard work on the manuscript, seeing your plant - powered creations under #simplyvibrantcookbook is seriously one of the most fulfilling bits of our days.

We would like to thank J. Reganold for useful comments on our manuscript.

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a manuscript of the book a few months ago and I can attest to the fact that it's bursting with information, stories, studies and more to guide parents in helping to improve their children's school food environment.

If your name appears as an author on a manuscript, you are responsible for the manuscript's veracity; but to what extent, and to whom, isn't clear.

«He is lead author on this manuscript due to both his contributions to the work and out of honor and respect for his contributions to the field and all of us involved.»

Really, when it comes to the nitty - gritty of getting it done, even doing the dishes may be more attractive than working on the manuscript.

«I could work on the manuscript when Lauren wasn't looking,» he reasoned.

She also has developed courses on manuscript reading and writing for physicians and graduate students.

Information on manuscript types, including length constraints, can be found on our general information for authors page.

We thank M. Antonietti (MPI) and P. Bowen (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) for valuable discussions on the manuscript, A. Verch (MPI) for experimental assistance, and O. Paris and I. Zenke (both MPI) for SAXS analysis.

Instead of grant proposals, he focused on manuscript reviews, particularly inept manuscript reviews — which, in his interdisciplinary field, apparently are not uncommon.

Naturally, they must all have the chance to read and make comments on the manuscript before it is submitted.