Editors and agents expect you to speak their language.
If you aspire to publish a novel or nonfiction book, you’ll find these terms useful at writers conferences as you prepare to meet with agents and editors.
Elevator speech. A one-minute presentation to prompt an editor or agent to want to learn more about your proposed … Continue reading
Acknowledge each version, with the required wording.
Most Bible publishers freely offer permission to quote from their copyrighted translations. There’s no need to fill out formal requests or to pay a fee—if your use meets certain conditions and you give proper credit.
Publishers’ Limits
Most publishers set similar guidelines for how much of their translation you can cite, as well as how they want it acknowledged. … Continue reading
Have you included these in your book’s manuscript?
When authors send me a manuscript to edit, I often find they’ve forgotten several key pages. Writers concentrate so much on the body of their book, they can overlook these.
They don’t take much work to create. But without them, a manuscript’s not ready to be typeset (or formatted as an e-book).
Think of these … Continue reading