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…

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

My experiences writing the first draft of a novel.

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…

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…

You’ve finished your manuscript, re-written and edited as much as you can… and you think your book is ready to be published. However, most publishers of commercial fiction and/or non-fiction now only consider manuscripts sent to them by literary agents. In this section of the site you’ll find a host of articles on the role of the literary agent and how to approach them with your book.

Scribbled observations, dinner party conversations, flashes of perception ... inspired by Henry James’s jottings, Paul Theroux, Susie Boyt and Amit Chaudhuri share their note-taking habits

A Common Mistake To Avoid When Submitting A Manuscript Is To Beware The Rogue Agent Author: Mark Walton Many aspiring authors rush into the process of finding an agent and overlook a common pitfall - the rogue agent. Agents work hard for their money - or at least good ones do. Bad ones find easier

“Commonplace books" are collections of quotations, anecdotes, proverbs, and various other types of text extracts. They and the theories informing their compilation were the progenitors of reference works that are now taken quite for encyclopedias, concordances, and books of quotations. Commonplace Books is a stand-alone historical survey of manuscript and printed books relating to the...