DiscoverEssential Guide to Writing a NovelEpisode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.
Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.

Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.

Update: 2024-07-26
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How can we submit a manuscript that meets the industry's format expectations and so avoids an amateurish look?  Here's how to do it.  Also, how the best-selling novelist Elin Hilderbrand live and work?  And a few comments on pumping up our creativity.

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Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.

Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.

James Thayer