Before you post, check what you’ve written.
It’s only a social media post. But it carries your name, and you want to build credibility as an author.
Before public speakers step on stage, they check they don’t have broccoli in their teeth or TP stuck to their shoe. It’s hard enough to deliver a message without a distracted audience.
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Easy ways to sabotage your submission.
Want a quick way to make a poor first impression with an agent or editor? Send a manuscript that’s not professionally formatted.
Consider the sample pages for a YA novel an author sent this morning. A quick glance suggested he wasn’t yet ready for prime time. Before I read … Continue reading
These shortcuts will quickly put your manuscript into shape.
A recent social media discussion got some writers worried. They hadn’t known that to indent the start of each paragraph, they shouldn’t use the Tab key. Instead, editors expect them to format their document so each paragraph indents automatically.
Now you tell me … … Continue reading