Book manuscript

When you’re writing the first paragraph of your new manuscript, it’s easy to ignore the formatting. After all, when your eyes are the only ones observing your work, worrying about things like proper page layout, mirror margins, section breaks, and whether or not your hyphens are in the right place can feel like obstacles to simply putting your ideas down on paper. However, once you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re ready to show it to other people, it’s important to make sure it…

If you think that manuscripts are judged solely on the merit of the story alone, we think you should be sitting down for this next paragraph. It doesn’t matter how many on-trend zeitgeist-welding hipsters your story possesses, if a manuscript offends in some other way, it may never be read.…

The completed manuscript. About 700 pages of paper that will turn into about 500 in book form...

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Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write! Where Writers Write is a weekly series that will feature a different author every Wednesday as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and/or video. As a lover of books and all of the hard work that goes into creating them, I thought it would be fun to see where the authors roll up their sleeves and make the magic happen. This is Mark A Rayner. Mark has explored many storytelling media; the theatre…

My experiences writing the first draft of a novel.

I’m currently hard at work on my third full-length YA manuscript. The first lives in a drawer with a stack of rejection letters and the second, Neverland, will be published by Penguin Random House …

You’ve finished your manuscript, re-written and edited as much as you can… and you think your book is ready to be published. However, most publishers of commercial fiction and/or non-fiction now only consider manuscripts sent to them by literary agents. In this section of the site you’ll find a host of articles on the role of the literary agent and how to approach them with your book.

What do these weird marks strewn all over my beautifully typed pages mean?

A Common Mistake To Avoid When Submitting A Manuscript Is To Beware The Rogue Agent Author: Mark Walton Many aspiring authors rush into the process of finding an agent and overlook a common pitfall - the rogue agent. Agents work hard for their money - or at least good ones do. Bad ones find easier