{"id":20866,"date":"2015-08-06T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Indispensable-Writing-Books-The-Well-Presented-Manuscript"},"modified":"2015-08-06T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:52:18","slug":"indispensable-writing-books-the-well-presented-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/08\/06\/indispensable-writing-books-the-well-presented-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Indispensable Writing Books: The Well-Presented Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/files\/wellpresentedmanuscript.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Indispensable Writing Books: The Well-Presented Manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently donated a large box of writing books to the library, including my copy of <em>The Elements of Style.<\/em> I&#8217;d owned it for a long time and had never found it useful for what I actually needed in my writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter Mike Reeves-McMillan&#8217;s\u00a0new book, <strong>The Well-Presented Manuscript.<\/strong> I was offered a copy in exchange for an honest review, and decided it was worth checking out. I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what I was going to get with this book. \u00a0I know Mike here on Google+ and he is a prolific writer whose stories and books are both traditionally and independently published. He also used to be a professional copy editor. I figured he knew his stuff about getting editors and agents to take a look at your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book is part formatting guide and part grammar guide. In fact, you could use it as a checklist while preparing your book or story. Did I format my manuscript correctly? Have I made any of these common grammar mistakes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I confess that the grammar guide made my eyes glaze over. There were a few rules I still couldn&#8217;t understand, even after Mike&#8217;s introduction and excellent examples. There&#8217;s a reason I hire a professional editor (the fantastic Karen Conlin)\u00a0for my work. However, I found the sections on adjectives and adverbs quite informative, and the long list of homonym errors was incredibly helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope Mike will put this out in a hardcover version. A reference like this would be very handy to have on the writing shelves, and it&#8217;s one, unlike <em>Elements of Style,<\/em> that I&#8217;d actually look through when I needed the help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available on Amazon:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1IKMrHK\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/1IKMrHK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> #indispensablewritingbooks \u00a0 #grammar \u00a0<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Indispensable Writing Books: The Well-Presented Manuscript<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[160,159,94],"class_list":["post-20866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-well-presented-manuscript","tag-grammar","tag-indispensablewritingbooks","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}