manuscript

New blog post by Claire G Finding a Literary Agent If you want to be traditionally published, the chances are that you’ll need a literary agent. Their job is to sell your book to a publishing house and manage the ‘business’ side of things for the author, including contracts and royalties, and...

"What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish." Thomas Wolfe

New blog post by AgentPete – discussions in this thread, please --- Come over here for a moment, would you? But be careful of the edge of the table, it’s rather sharp. Good. Now you can see things from my side of the desk. That towering pile you see in front of you? It’s what some unkind...

"The unpublished manuscript is like an unconfessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting & contaminating it" Antonio Machado

I've started a blog and have been slowly developing it into a hub where I can showcase who I am as a writer. So far, I've only posted general information about what I'm writing (past the regular posts I'm making on the blog), but I plan on expanding some of the stuff I'm putting on the site to...

I found this "Free Manuscript Checker" on the Ghostly Publishing website. It recorded a whopping 576 publishing errors on my manuscript. I wonder if anyone else has tried it, or knows how such errors are measured or identified...