Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript Review
Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript by Jack & Glenda Neff, Don Prues
Writer's Digest Books, November 1999.Trade Paperback, 248 pages.
ISBN: 089879921X
Ordering information:
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Writers will be very pleased with this
detailed guide to manuscript
formatting and submitting.
The guide provides detailed
instruction, full-page samples
with pointers and do's and
don'ts to help writers learn how
to submit their work appropriately.
The book covers all types of
manuscripts and submissions, including
freelance articles, freelance queries,
book manuscripts, book proposals,
agent and editor queries, fillers, short stories,
novels, screenplays, television scripts,
plays, poetry and greeting cards.
The appendix includes information about
record keeping and forms, a permission
form to use copyrighted material, a sample
release form and a letter of agreement.
This book does the best job to date of showing writers how to submit their work in the correct format and style. The most valuable parts of the book are the highly detailed samples which show the correct format needed for each type of manuscript. The samples include even the tiniest details -- such as margin size, where to indent, center and underline, word counts and page numbering -- that you need to catch an editor's eye. This is a reference that writers will consult over and over again. Highly recommended.
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