This level of editing addresses some fundamental
questions about your manuscript, such as:
If you're not getting any answers to
your questions about your manuscript and its value to publishers, why not have a book industry professional review the first ten pages of your manuscript?
Asking a series of
questions about each manuscript they review.
Not exact matches
If this appears a rather rash statement, it is perhaps worth recalling just how problematic some of these sources can be when
questions about the dating, provenance or dissemination are asked: the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37 — 71) which contains so many crucial references to Christological titles otherwise thin on the ground elsewhere outside the New Testament (most notably the enigmatic «Son of Man»), is first attested only in a fifteenth - century Ethiopic
manuscript.
As Niebuhr observed in a
manuscript posthumously published as Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith, «
questions about faith arise in every area of life.»
All Science Journals require
manuscripts to be accompanied by clear disclosures from all authors of any past and present affiliations, funding sources, and financial or management relationships related to the reported research that might raise
questions about possible sources of bias.
If you think
about these
questions even before you submit your
manuscript, you will be on your way to putting together an effective marketing plan for you book.
What
questions do you have
about manuscript preparation that I haven't covered?
The editor assigned to your book will get in contact with you shortly after you have made your payment with any
questions he or she has for you
about your
manuscript and personal writing style.
Since I have
questions about the structure of the book this early, and because the
manuscript is a little on the long side for a debut, I would recommend soliciting editorial feedback for structure, continuity, pacing and other story elements.
A common
question I get
about Scrivener (and it was one I had when I started using the writing software) is how I get my
manuscript to my editor if they don't have Scrivener.
Therefore, provide your amateurs with a list of
questions that you'd like them to answer
about your
manuscript.
Thinking
about the following
questions before you submit your
manuscript is a good idea, and you can always revise your answers as you go
about the book marketing process and learn more
about your audience.
In the meantime, if you have any
questions about initial formatting of your
manuscript in preparation of the conversion process or if you have any other
questions, post them and let's get the discussion started.
I'm going to write a blog
about the
manuscript retreats as I've been getting a few
questions about them.
I thought my
manuscript was pretty «tight» but you can see the lovely markup of some of my mistakes and my own editors comments below: Since professional book editors see so many
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I thought my
manuscript was pretty «tight» but you can see the lovely markup of some of my mistakes and my own editors comments below: Since professional book editors see so many
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Please contact me with any
questions, for a free sample of my editing work on one of your
manuscripts, or to inquire
about hiring me for a project.
But the reason that we have decided to do some diagnostics comes from a number of
questions we had
about the
manuscript: