Edit Your Book
Why You Should Edit Before You Send to An Editor Editing your book – what’s the point of editing before sending to an editor? Does a book editor charge extra if my work…
Manuscript Editing
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Editing Your First Draft
Whether you’re self-publishing your book, sending to an editor, or to a publishing company — ideally you want to send your ultimate best work — even if you’re having someone else edit it…
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How to Submit Your Manuscript Part 2
Submitting Your Manuscript – Part 2 Remember, spell-check isn’t enough. You might have spelled to when you meant to spell too, something spellcheck won’t catch. It often takes only one error to signal…
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How to Submit Your Manuscript Part 1
Submitting Your Manuscript – Part 1 Congratulations! Your manuscript if finally finished. You did it. Yay! After months or even years of endless blood, sweat, toil and tears, you’ve at long last finished…
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Story Pacing – Urgency – Hooking Readers
The First Fifty – Crucial – Pages of Your Book The first fifty pages of your book are crucial for setting the hook in your readers. Something has to happen. Something exciting, or…
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Rewriting and Revising Before You Edit
How Many Manuscript Drafts Should You Go Through? When working on a book of any kind, if you haven’t gone through a minimum of three drafts, you probably don’t have a finished product….
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Fine Tuning Your Manuscript – Part 3
Engage Your Characters in Their Setting When you’re characters interact through dialogue, make them interact as well with their surroundings. There should be a continual interplay of character and setting. Examine your dialogue…
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Fine Tuning Your Manuscript – Part 2
The Three S’s – Scene, Setting, and Senses Stories don’t occur in a bubble. They have to be set in a real and believable place. And what makes a scene or setting, is…
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Fine Tuning Your Manuscript – Part 1
You’ve Written “The End” – But Is Your Book Ready? Okay, so you’ve finally reached the magic words “The End”. But is it really? Are you done? Have you really finished your book?…
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Avoiding Cliches
This one’s a tough nut to crack. Avoiding cliches is like avoiding headaches. We’d all love to, but there’s no way we’ll ever completely avoid them. With hundreds of cliches, they’re as thick…
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How to format your MS
How to format your MS – kids books to novels – standards – no matter whether email or print When submitting your book manuscript to send to an agent or a publisher there…
