While preparing your manuscript for publication, there are a few things to keep in mind to make your publisher’s/your own life a bit easier when book design time comes. Here are my top 6: 1. Run Spell check 2. Run Grammar check (keep in mind – neither of these checks can substitute for the expertise [...]
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Top 6 Quick Tips for Creating a “Publish-able” Manuscript
Posted: July 12, 2011 by Cheri Breeding in Cheri SpeaksTags: Cheri Breeding, manuscript, Outskirts Press
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Sizing-up Your Self-published Book
Posted: November 11, 2010 by selfpublishingadvice in UncategorizedTags: book size, manuscript, on-demand, POD, Self-Publishing
As you continue to develop your content, target your market, and research self-publishing options, it will become at some point important to consider your book length. The most important thing to recognize is the difference between your manuscript page size (which is most likely 8.5 x 11) and your published book trim size (which will most [...]
Self-publishing Manuscript Submission Tip
Posted: July 12, 2010 by selfpublishingadvice in Choosing a Publisher, Self-PublishingTags: APA, Chicago Manual of Style, grammar, manuscript, MLA, punctuation, review, Self-Publishing, typeface
The unfortunate and universal result of the typewriter and monospaced fonts is the nasty habit of placing two spaces between sentences. Not only a visual eyesore, the practice is wrong according to our experts at the APA, MLA, and Chicago Manual of Style
Self-publishing & Page Count
Posted: June 1, 2010 by selfpublishingadvice in Self-PublishingTags: manuscript, on-demand, Self-Publishing
The most important thing to recognize is the difference between your manuscript page size (which is most likely 8.5 x 11) and your published book trim size (which will most likely be smaller). When you discuss page count with your self-publisher, or per-page pricing, it is based upon the size of the published page, also [...]
Ask the Doctor: Editing and Self-Publishing
Posted: November 12, 2008 by selfpublishingadvice in Editing Your Self-Published BookTags: book, Editing Your Self-Published Book, manuscript, Self-Publishing
Q: I plan to self publish. My book was written and designed and ready to go to a printer, but somebody warned me that it needed editing. I sent it to an editor, but he said he can’t edit it when it’s already designed. Why not? A: A manuscript should always be edited before it [...]
