A memorable time of my life: Pushing forward

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Pushing forward

For the past few days I've been getting my manuscript ready to send to the publisher for copy editing. It looks fairly clean to me, but I'm sure there are some structural and content issues I will have to grapple with. It's not that long, just under 70,000 words. But I have 27 chapters.

I'm planning on commenting here as the copy editing moves along. I hope I can use you as a sounding board. Please make comments. Don't know how I'll react to proposed changes. You know how we writers get when someone tries to mess with our ideas.

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Agent Pet Peeves

*Queries with lots of big paragraphs or tiny font

*An email asking about how to submit
a query

*Use a generic greeting (To Whom It May Concern or my favorite, Dear Sirs) or address it to the wrong name.

*A Lack of Professionalism,

*Saying "God told me to write this"

*Anything cliché such as ‘It was a dark and stormy night’ will turn me off. I hate when a narrator or author addresses the reader e.g., 'Gentle reader'

*Too casual, too colloquial, too cute and anything else that tries too hard to "stand out."

*Manuscripts that open with a line of dialogue (esp. one with an exclamation point) and those whose opening line “dumps” exposition.

*Clichés in plot summary—Argh. These are way more common than you’d think: "thought she had it all," "will stop at nothing," "must risk everything"— Beware.