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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What is a Synopsis and How Do I Write One?
At its most fundamental level, a synopsis answers the question: What is this book about? A synopsis should cover – in abbreviated form – all the major points of your book in sequential…
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Writing a Blurb
Writing a blurb is not easy: Anyone who thinks writing a blurb is easy, has probably never written a good blurb. The blurb I speak of here is the kind that’s found on…
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What is a Blurb? And How to Write One
For the purposes of this blog, a blurb (sometimes referred to as a short summary) is the brief description of a book’s contents found on the book’s back cover, written with the intent…
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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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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…
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How to Write Your Query Letter
Free Query Letter Template When you’ve spent a lot of time on your book and then you’re ready to submit to an agent, writing a query letter can seem as if it’s…
