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Exclusive serial: ‘Marketing Your Book’
We’re serialising the 2nd edition of Alison Baverstock’s Marketing Your Book: An Author’s Guide, exclusively on the Writers’ & Artists’ website.
For a limited time only you can view chapters here on the Writers’ & Artists’ website. We add one chapter at a time, giving you two chapters to read whenever you visit.
Chapter 4 ‘Preparing your manuscript for submission’ is online now. You can read it by clicking on the links below.
- When should you send your manuscript?
- What kind of response are you looking for?
- Should you send off a partly finished manuscript?
- How to submit your writing
- More tips for submitting your writing
- At what point should you chase submission?
We have now added Chapter 5 ‘What to send with your manuscript’, which gives you invaluable advice on all the supporting materials you need to prepare for a publisher, from your CV to the all-important covering letter. The sections are:
- What to send with your manuscript
- Writing promotional copy
- Effective design makes copy easy to read – and act upon
- What information to draft to accompany your writing sample
- An introductory letter (called a ‘query letter’ in the US)
- A synopsis
- An accompanying CV
- An outline of the market
- A book blurb
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