Showing posts with label manuscript formatting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manuscript formatting. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2018
Talk about being forced kicking and screaming into gear...
So...writers group was this past Saturday and it was fun as it always is. I caught up with three out of five posse members.
In light of needing to get all my ducks in a row for the conference in October--mainly getting physical books printed, I asked my friends what the first thing I needed to do is.
The answer: format the manuscript for print.
Okey dokey--Google is my friend. Found several tutorials and I was on my way. Once I got the gist of what was required, it was a snap. All things I'd done before for another project.
One of my friends also had a coupon code (allowing me to do them for free) for one of the print-on-demand (POD) vendors, good through June. So I have two weeks to get at least two books formatted and uploaded along with a full cover (front, back, and spine) images... Yikes. I'm hoping to get four done.
Along with the proofing job and the series guide I'm working on and all the other things going on at the end of the week, it looks like I'll be busy busy busy... Yikes again.
Hope you had a lovely weekend.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
I finally did it--
Cleaned up, formatted, and converted a manuscript for publication that wasn't practice and didn't belong to a friend.
I did a proofing job for a gal and she asked about the cleanup and formatting. I was honest and said I wanted to break into that market (such as it is) but hadn't done any yet. I offered to do hers for free and if she wasn't happy, then all she'd lost was a week or so of time and she could hire someone with more experience. She agreed. So I dutifully cleaned and formatted and converted. It was a great test as it was a really long manuscript, just over 90K words.
Anyway, she was pleased and said she'd recommended me to others and told her editor as well so that she could recommend a quality proofreader and formatter to others. And there we have it!
Wanda's book is a 90K+ word historical romance ficton taking place in biblical times.
I've also been working with my critique partner to get two novellas published, though I've been wearing my editor hat for the last couple of days. I'll switch to cleanupper, formatter, and converter in another day or two when we're sure the books are ready to go. Can't wait...
Even though they're not my books, it's very exciting!
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