Sentences with phrase «reading manuscripts»

I think people publishing their own eBook should also be super careful about proof - reading their manuscripts, hopefully by someone else too.

Over my two decades of teaching the craft and reading manuscripts submitted at conferences, I've seen a rise in the tide of competent fiction.

Pat: We know that literary agents spend a lot of their «spare» time reading manuscripts, but what else do you do for fun?

And once the up to 100 finalists are selected, who at Penguin is going to be reading their manuscripts — something that must be accomplished between January 15 and March 2, a time period of just under two months?

She began reading manuscripts for DCJA in 2009...

I joked with editors and publishers that I was living life on my terms, reading manuscripts by the pool, and enjoying all the best that life had to offer (especially in the winter).

I usually «pay» my beta readers by beta reading their manuscripts.

When not reading manuscripts, marketing website, social media, or industry blogs, you can find Schwartz on her laptop enjoying her own writing time.

They'll tell you her nose is constantly in a book, or staring at her Kindle Fire, her iPad mini, or even reading manuscripts on her phone!

This is the conclusion that Christopher Graney, a physicist at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky, came to after reading manuscripts from another astronomer who was active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, at the same time as Galileo.

The reason that reading your manuscript out loud works so well is because you will catch dozens of things you would have otherwise missed.

Once you've read the manuscript out loud, marked the changes and done one full revision pass, then stop thinking about it for a few days.

You read your manuscript out loud, and mark changes as you go.

According to a Vogue interview,» «Jeff is my best reader,» she says of her more well known spouse, who will cheerfully clear his schedule for the day, read her manuscript in one sitting, and give her meticulous notes on her work.»

The client reads the manuscript and spends another few hours giving the editor notes.

Our reaction is shaped in part by having just finished reading the manuscript of The Final Revolution, a marvelous book by our colleague George Weigel that will be published later this year by Oxford University Press.

In addition, Arvin Vos and Robert Roberts have read the manuscript and offered helpful suggestions.

During the early part of the year she kept saying I must read her manuscript, and I kept avoiding it because I knew the problem we would get into if I did.

This book is now published only after two of my colleagues, Professor Julius A. Bewer and Professor James E. Frame, one an authority on the Old Testament and the other on the New, have read the manuscript with painstaking care.

My thanks are expressed to Rev. John England for reading the manuscript and making valuable suggestions.

Among my colleagues, Professors Donald Rhoades, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Hans Dieter Betz have read the manuscript in a late stage of its writing.

I am grateful to Dr. Han Spykerboer and Rev. Douglas Galbraith for reading the manuscript and making useful suggestions, and also to Rev. Ashish Amos of ISPCK and Rev. Dr. T.M. Philip of CSS for publishing the book.

I owe a special debt to Walter Brueggemann, who patiently read the manuscript while on leave at Cambridge and promptly sent a multitude of helpful suggestions back across the Atlantic.

The Very Rev. J. M. Bates, the Rev. D. R. Madill, the Rev. T. M. Corkill and my colleague the Rev. Professor F. W. R. Nichol, I wish to thank warmly for their kindness in reading the manuscript and for the suggestions they have made.

I can imagine proof - reading a manuscript would be a very arduous job xx

When Editor Laura Dennis asked me to read the manuscript for Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues, I jumped at the chance.

It is of course a valuable skill for any scientist to be able to read a manuscript quickly, glean the essential points from it, and assess possible flaws.

You want them to read your manuscript using as little energy as possible, so write it as you would a story.

«Dragana reads my manuscripts more than my boss.»

Researchers receiving funding will be expected to have read this manuscript, and research institutions must demonstrate their adoption of the outlined initiatives [2].

All of the authors have read the manuscript and concur with the conclusions therein.

Because the odds are, you'll be reading this manuscript again at some point, and wouldn't it be nice if they performed the validation that you were looking for?

As I read the manuscript, I thought it made more and more sense in relation to RA.

Tim is reading a manuscript for a book jacket design he is working on.

The scene focuses on someone the audience can't see as they're reading a manuscript.

The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller starring Robin Williams as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).

He even gets Stein to read his manuscript (and, lo and behold, she likes it).

Some fabulous physicists and chemists and mathematicians read the manuscript and offered opinions.

If literary agents or book publishers don't want to know what happens at the end of your book, they won't read your book synopsis until they're finished reading your manuscript.

Let your beta readers read your manuscript first.

It's easy for authors to imagine that literary agents don't have much (or anything) to do except read manuscripts.

When I beta read, I usually read the manuscript twice because I'll unfailingly find additional issues on the second pass when I'm not as caught up in just reading the story.

When she wrote her first novel, a murder mystery, her husband read the manuscript and assured her that it was good — but still, she hesitated.

Sorry, for obvious reasons, I can't read manuscripts or recommend an agent.

Only the computer sees and reads your manuscript.

Your editor will let you know once they start reading your manuscript.

I highly recommend hiring a professional to at least proof - read your manuscript.

(4) I read the manuscript of my book to my six children and they all loved it.

Even if it is not the correct job title of the person who first reads your manuscript, the reader is performing an editorial function.

If I had been reading their manuscript and they made that mistake I would have seen it.