Manuscript writing

Ancient Writing by Artist Unknown

The importance of copyediting to your manuscript cannot be overestimated. Here’s an introduction how to do copyediting, and whether to use an outside copyedtor.

A #mentor will help you keep #motivated to meet your deadlines.

If you think that manuscripts are judged solely on the merit of the story alone, we think you should be sitting down for this next paragraph. It doesn’t matter how many on-trend zeitgeist-welding hipsters your story possesses, if a manuscript offends in some other way, it may never be read.…

Writing a book is the first big step in making your dreams of becoming a published author come true. Whether you are looking to self-publish, or secure yourself an agent, I will be here to ensure your book is the best it can be. Send me the first two pages of your manuscript if you would like a free sample to see my editing style.

The completed manuscript. About 700 pages of paper that will turn into about 500 in book form...

I’m currently hard at work on my third full-length YA manuscript. The first lives in a drawer with a stack of rejection letters and the second, Neverland, will be published by Penguin Random House …

At 1:04am, on the 20th of August, after exactly 292 days or 41 weeks and 5 days of writing my first draft of my novel, I wrote those two long awaited words… ‘The End’. I was in bed, in the dark, laptop on my knees, with my sleeping beauty of a wife next to me. […]

My experiences writing the first draft of a novel.

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