Book manuscript

When you’re writing the first paragraph of your new manuscript, it’s easy to ignore the formatting. After all, when your eyes are the only ones observing your work, worrying about things like proper page layout, mirror margins, section breaks, and whether or not your hyphens are in the right place can feel like obstacles to simply putting your ideas down on paper. However, once you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re ready to show it to other people, it’s important to make sure it…

The completed manuscript. About 700 pages of paper that will turn into about 500 in book form...

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Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write! Where Writers Write is a weekly series that will feature a different author every Wednesday as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and/or video. As a lover of books and all of the hard work that goes into creating them, I thought it would be fun to see where the authors roll up their sleeves and make the magic happen. This is Mark A Rayner. Mark has explored many storytelling media; the theatre…

My experiences writing the first draft of a novel.

I’m currently hard at work on my third full-length YA manuscript. The first lives in a drawer with a stack of rejection letters and the second, Neverland, will be published by Penguin Random House Australia in April 2018. My good friend and fellow blogger, Lucy, AKA The Unlikely Bookworm, recently asked what advice I’d offer…

How to write a query letter for your book manuscript to interest a potential publisher, editor or literary agent. Head to the blog to read the step-by-step guide to what goes into a query letter, how to write it, where and who to send it to. #publishing #writingadvice #query #bookproposal #writingtip

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