{"id":20895,"date":"2015-07-02T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/The-Well-Presented-Manuscript-Just-What-You-Need-to-Know-to-Make-Your-Fiction-Look-Professional-is-available-for"},"modified":"2015-07-02T07:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T07:30:50","slug":"the-well-presented-manuscript-just-what-you-need-to-know-to-make-your-fiction-look-professional-is-available-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/02\/the-well-presented-manuscript-just-what-you-need-to-know-to-make-your-fiction-look-professional-is-available-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional is available for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional<\/em> is available for preorder on Amazon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B010RJOAYA\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B010RJOAYA<\/a>. Launch day is 14 July (US Pacific time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I set out to write a gentle, accessible guide to avoiding or correcting the most common errors that fiction writers make. How do I know which ones those are? I read nearly 250 books&#8211;indie and trad-pub&#8211;and marked the errors in my Kindle, then analysed them. And who am I, anyway? I&#8217;m a fiction author, a former professional editor and technical writer, and a book reviewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cover punctuation (including breaking down sentence structure and parts of speech, so you understand where the commas should go); the special rules of punctuating dialog; commonly confused words; spotting and removing typos; and even a few research problems. I also talk about submitting to short-fiction and trad-pub editors, who reject 90% or more of what they receive, and how you can increase your chances with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even good writers make many of the mistakes I cover, and I mark the commonest ones for special attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d like to improve your fiction manuscript, but find other guides confusing or too technical, give this one a try. With hundreds of examples, many drawn from real books, it&#8217;s focused on practical use, not theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see an early draft in blog form here: <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/wellpresentedms\">http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/wellpresentedms<\/a> (but I&#8217;ve substantially revised and expanded it for the book, and added several new chapters). \ufeff<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional is available for&#8230;<\/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":[94],"class_list":["post-20895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-well-presented-manuscript","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895","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=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}