Here’s my Twitter treasure of the day! It’s never ceases to amaze me the tips and tricks I find from editors, agents and authors on the social media site. This one is from freelance editor and children’s author Jennifer Malone about how to properly format your manuscript.
As a freelance editor most of the manuscripts emailed to me are not formatted in standard industry format. I don’t really care BUT this makes me worry that agents receiving these same manuscripts might be forming biased opinions about a writer’s professionalism before even beginning a read.
Check out the entire article here!
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Thanks so much for this! I love all your little tidbits of information that you link to. Super helpful and informative!
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Jen, you are so chock-full of great information and professionally self-reveling writing. Thanks !
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So glad to be helpful! I figure if I’m learning something from an article, others might too. So why not share it?
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Wow, thanks for sharing. There are so many things a newbie writer has to learn, and properly formatting a manuscript was one of the items on my list.
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Glad to help!
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