by Linden Gross | Jul 8, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Writing
As more of my writing clients are finishing their books, I’m finding some shared formatting mistakes in their manuscripts. While I don’t recommend worrying about formatting while writing your initial sloppy copy, establishing a few basic formatting...
by Linden Gross | Feb 25, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Writing
What comes after the first draft and all the steps you’ve taken in the ensuing months? And, even more importantly, how long before you can publish your book? The good news is that before you even receive the physical proof of your book, in fact, even before the copy...
by Linden Gross | Feb 18, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Writing
Once you have final copy, your next steps after the first draft involve having the book’s interior pages laid out. Ideally, you will have approved the page design well before this point, so this publishing piece shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks at most,...
by Linden Gross | Feb 11, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Writing
If you’ve been following this what-to-do-after-the-first-draft series, you’re now quite aware of just how much work is involved. Let’s assume that you’ve finished writing and rewriting all the drafts of your book and have sent them off to the professionals for editing...
by Linden Gross | Feb 4, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
The what-happens-after-the-first-draft saga continues. Once you’ve rewritten your manuscript, so you’ve shown rather than told, then added detail and honed your language, you could be ready to turn over your manuscript to a professional line editor (unless you...
by Linden Gross | Jan 28, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Writing
How to revise your first draft doesn’t stop with turning narrative into active passages that allow your reader to experience what’s happening vicariously as discussed in Part 1 of this series. Once you’ve gotten those broad strokes of your revision in hand, including...
