Claire Plaisted of Plaisted Publishing house has posted a fantastic blog post about formatting for as well traditional as also Indie authors and has done a huge favor to me and I’m sure many other start-up authors as well. This is something that really has tied my stomach in a knot. Thank you Claire for this phenomenal information.
What You Need to Know!
This isn’t about how to format. It’s about what you need to format for some of the different areas of writing, editing and publishing.
Formatting is something all writers need to learn at the start of their career. It will save you time, money and gain you experience of all the different types of formatting that are around today. Remember as technology improves, formatting is likely to change too.
I have blogged about formatting before. As a professional formatter and publisher it can be very irritating when work arrives with tab indents. To me this is one of the biggest NO’s there is. The other problem is all the different types of formatting needed for editors, submissions, publishing and even writing, never mind the different genre’s there are in the world today.
So how do we start? Great question!
First are you…
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Good advice here, thanks for sharing.
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It was my pleasure. I too think it’s really important.
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Very Interesting! I must say that I have bloopers to be fixed. Darn it!! Thanks for sharing even though I now need to go back over work and will probably not sleep for another six nights…but that’s ok. No, no don’t feel guilty…you are just the messenger..lol! Thanks, AJ! 🙂
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LOL. Thanks a lot for telling me I don’t have to feel guilty. *grin* It helps. LOL I think this is a fantastic post and since this is something that scared me it’s useful for a lot of authors I think.
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