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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Of course, long docs in Word are also notoriously buggy.
I've been lucky, but then, there's no graphics or tricky formatting or anything for straight fiction submission format; it's my Word doc default and it's yet to mess with me.
I imagine that a document with graphics, imported text, bullets, footnotes etc would have the potential to be buggy as hell.
I use a separate document for each chapter and then create my own master document. Word's is aw.ful.
This does mean that I have to print and collate manually, but the ToC and index are in the master and they come out right.
BTW, I've got a story - The Gravekeeper, based on "Long Black Veil", in this anthology.
This will likely be the first in a series of these, assuming it sells. Second would likely be Bob Dylan, and that one might have stories by both erika and me.
So here's hoping it sells.
I imagine that a document with graphics, imported text, bullets, footnotes etc would have the potential to be buggy as hell.
Sobs.
IOW Yup.
Question - if you do chapters in seperate documents, how do manage cross referencing on end notes?
how do manage cross referencing on end notes?
umm...I don't have end notes. I imagine that would be a pain.
Question: you can send out multiple queries correct? But if they ask for a book proposal (not yet), then one publisher at a time, cause evaluating a book proposal is major work for editor and publishing staff - true?
TB, yep - that's the way it works in fiction, at least.
Our basic is, initial query can be multiple, but if they want to see more or ask for an exclusive, the rules change.
This blog is mostly about fiction, but answers a ton of questions about dealing with agents (and some about publishers, too): [link] I'm not trying to sell a book, just obsessed with advice columns.
That link aalso says that synopsys in a query should be single spaced not double spaced. The refererence work I own on how to write a book proposal say everything should be double spaced, but I do see how the synopysis could be an exception. So the question is where to I go to get a really reliable guide to proper formatting for a book proposal. I gather that there is not absolute rule; that there are varietions. Still is there some way I can get less of the marketing 101 more of the basic mechanical formatting as "no more than x words" , x format. Right now I'm just doing everything double spaced 12 point Times Roman font 1 inch margins. Anything besides the synopis that should be an exception to this? Anyplace that is a good nuts and bolts source for this?
Also this articles says skip the query, go right to proposal. I'm guessing that may be one of the differences between fiction and non-fic.