{"id":85,"date":"2015-05-10T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T00:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/wellpresentedms\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:21:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/wellpresentedms\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Well-Presented Manuscript<\/em> is a book, of which this\u00a0blog is a draft. The final book contains extra material not on the blog, and you can get\u00a0it from Amazon<\/a>, Barnes & Noble<\/a>,\u00a0Kobo<\/a>, iBooks<\/a>,\u00a0Oyster<\/a>, Scribd<\/a> or Inktera<\/a>. It’s now in its fourth edition (2025), completely reorganized and heavily revised.<\/p>\n

I’m Mike Reeves-McMillan<\/a>, former copy editor and tech writer, current active author (of novels<\/a> and short stories<\/a>) and book reviewer. I grew tired of seeing the same simple errors in one published book after another\u2014traditionally published as well as indie\u2014so I decided to write a clear guide to just the things you need to know to come across as professional.<\/p>\n

Below is the table of contents for the book, with links to posts on this blog where applicable. Note that the blog is a draft, and I revised and expanded each chapter, and added a lot more material, when writing the book.<\/p>\n

I’ve also written a summary post of the five most common errors<\/a>, which is included in the book in the 2020 and 2022 editions, but was not in the original (2015).<\/p>\n

New as of the 2022 edition, which also expands the popular Commonly Confused Words section by more than a third:<\/p>\n