Looking for people's experiences with submitting romance manuscripts to the usual houses and the aftermath. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Nov 12, 2009 - 6 answers

Should I maintain double spacing in an agent query email? Submission guidelines ask for the first 5 pages of my manuscript. How faithful should I be to the actual document? [more inside]
posted by bobbyno on Sep 17, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a manuscript version of Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility," or alternatively, 657. It's possible that it is available in R.W. Franklin's The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson A Facsimile Edition. However, I can't get my hands on that book through Amazon, my library, or any of the standard means. Help? [more inside]
posted by bloggerwench on Sep 8, 2009 - 8 answers

An agent is interested in my book but says that they only have an "optional" contract- authors can sign it or not, given their preference. Should I give them my book? [more inside]
posted by arnicae on Apr 13, 2008 - 15 answers

I have never read an unpublished manuscript before. A friend has asked me to read his with a critical eye in preparation for submitting it to a publishing house. What is the best way to go about this? [more inside]
posted by msali on Nov 2, 2006 - 19 answers

Help me deliver a manuscript from Vancouver to NYC by end of business Monday Oct 2nd. [more inside]
posted by BorgLove on Sep 30, 2006 - 15 answers

MicrosoftWordfilter: This program is vexing the heck out of me. I need some help with quotation marks. But not the wiggling finger kind. [more inside]
posted by willmize on Sep 29, 2006 - 4 answers

How to (tactfully and successfully) get some major names to look at some of my writing? Of course there is [more inside]
posted by exlotuseater on Jul 18, 2006 - 18 answers

I have to send a manuscript in the be edited and they've asked me to mark all italicized words with an underline and all bolded words with a wavy underline. I've never sent in an ms before so I am unsure how to go about doing this. Is it possible to format a document like this in MS Word? If not, is there another program I should be using? [more inside]
posted by ducksauce on Jul 28, 2005 - 13 answers