Even if you get a traditional publishing deal, I would never just
hand over the manuscript and wait for them to make you famous.
One aspect of self - publishing that has been so attractive to many authors is the greater sense of
control over their manuscripts, and editing is no different.
This includes what questions to ask yourself as you go
back over your manuscript to make sure your book has a great hook, tight pacing, and compelling characters.
Beta readers can help catch common, easy to fix mistakes such as detail inconsistencies, that you'll most likely miss after having
read over the manuscript 300 times.
Being a first time author, I spent endless hours researching all the self - publishing companies before
handing over my manuscript.
The key here, though, is that the error rate should be as minimal as possible, and having many eyes
look over a manuscript is key.
You can't have too many eyes looking at a book and yes, small presses will do editing, but I would also have a friend or three
pore over the manuscript looking for typos.
The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin's Children Left
All Over the Manuscript of «On the Origin of Species» (Brain Pickings): «In contemplating family, work, and happiness, Charles Darwin proclaimed: «Children are one's greatest happiness, but often & often a still greater misery.
We paid out good money for a professional artist to do a killer cover, and we went
over the manuscript with a fine - toothed comb, then hired an editor.
I spent the summer poring
over the manuscript of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting.
You know, after college, after establishing myself in the world as a newspaper writer or at a publishing house
pouring over manuscripts and meeting up with friends at fancy bars in the evenings.
I can imagine Nature
hesitating over the manuscript — «On the possibility of naturally occurring gravitationally bound fusion reactors» — debating whether to allow such a bizarre, speculative notion to grace its pages.
Publishers do still
fight over manuscripts from «hot» authors and you still see agents taking projects to auction, with advances being paid that may never earn out because of over-exuberance.
Well, what do you think your reaction would be like when you
toiled over a manuscript only to get it back from the editor awash in red ink?
-- is that the vast majority of authors still want Big Five contracts and most agents are doing just fine in come - hithering the majors and
ferrying over those manuscripts, thanks very much, jingle, jingle, see you later, baby.
You've slaved
over your manuscript making it the best it can be and NOW, you are being asked to write a proposal with the bulk of it addressing marketing and publicity.
Vallotton is justly celebrated for his friezelike portrait (not in the show) of the legendary anarchist and writer FÉLIX FÉNÉON EDITING LA REVUE BLANCHE (1896), the journal associated with the Nabi artists Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and ÿdouard Vuillard, an intense image of a man
hunched over his manuscripts that today seems to presage the fervor of the solitary blogger.
That's not to say an author — published or not — doesn't need someone to go
over the manuscript JUST BEFORE SUBMISSION to check for grammar, punctuation and spelling.
When you
send over your manuscript, offer a choice of formats (EPUB, PDF, or Kindle), and make sure your book is formatted well.
I am dreading the red pen scribbled
all over the manuscript but I know that it can only make my book better and make me a better writer.
At least one (preferably two) qualified individual needs to
read over your manuscript from cover to cover in an effort to seek out those nasty typos and misspellings that your word processor didn't catch.