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A Kossack's Guide to Book Publishing - part 10 (Leaving Laura returns!) [update: more pootie pics]

by Swordsmith

Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 03:19:02 PM PDT

Outlining
Possibly the hardest thing for first-time writers is actually finishing a book. Lots of people can start a great book, but a lot of those starts peter out into nothing, or get written into un-endable corners. In the interests of seeing the finished products of a lot of folks hereabouts writing on bookshelves, I'm going to spend some time in this series on helping people to avoid getting stuck, and to get unstuck when the inevitable happens.

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A Kossack's Guide to Book Publishing - part 5 [updated]

by Swordsmith

Fri Jul 28, 2006 at 08:33:23 AM PDT

Submitting a Manuscript
There have been a whole bunch of requests for an entry in this series covering the basics of how to submit a manuscript to a publisher. So this is going to be a long but fairly general nuts-and-bolts kind of introductory segment, with the more detailed nuances of book proposal writing, finding market reports, and such left for later segments. Most of what I talk about here is true for submitting both books to publishers and stories to magazines, and it's similar to what you'll be submitting to a prospective literary agent.