My post for yesterday didn’t go up for some reason (it’s there now), but for those tuning back in, it involved Diana Peterson who has posted a primer on publishing industry terms and concepts to help people who might not be as in-the-know on the business side of writing. I’ll admit, sometimes I wish I could skip all the queries and mailings and proposals and just focus on the writing 24/7 (aside from my job of course) but I suppose being educated when approaching agents and editors with my work at least helps present a professional image that they might want to work with.
Here is Diana’s Part 2 to the primer, where she covers manuscript format, electronic submissions and word count.
More to come.
I’m actually involved with a lot of this right now, because I’m processing all my submissions to various agencies for one of my novels in the hope of getting represented again. So I’m dealing with proposals and synopses and making sure I’ve got Courier or Times New Roman, font size 12 with 1 inch margins all around the page. Thank God for industry standards, otherwise it’d be a crazy mess having to reformat the first sample chapters and pages for every agent I sent to. Still, it is fun printing stuff up and getting it nice and packed up to mail out. I will, of course, let you all know should anything come of these submissions.
I see that smile.