Sending off a manuscript

by Chris Roche
28th June 2014

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help...

I'm sending off a part of the manuscript for my novel on Monday to a publishing house that has requested submissions, but they've given little information about how to display the content. It is too late to send them an email asking, so....

1. Would everyone normally 1.5 space/double space their work? (meaning that the first 50 pages will actually roughly be the first 25 pages, but double spaced).

2. Would everyone normally start each new chapter on a new A4 page (meaning that in fact the first 50 pages could be as little as 20 pages, but double spaced and with extra room left to start each new paragraph on a fresh page).

Hope that makes sense, and any help is greatly appreciated :)

Chris

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Good luck to you as well, Chris. I sent the first three chapters of my novel, it wasn't quite 50 pages but like you say they have a good taste of the work.

Jayne

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Hi Chris, thanks for the push in that direction, I have just pressed send... Mine is double spaced and like you I couldn't find any help in what to tell them so I sent a covering list and a paragraph about me, not much in that! and a short synopsis which I didn't have till this morning, not easy to get 400 pages into quarter page. Good luck to you both we can only hope.

Regards Paul

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Hi Jayne,

Thanks for the response. I sent mine off late last night! I did 1.5 spacing and started each chapter on a new page as well in the end - there were enough words for them to get a good taste of the work so that's all that matters really.

Good luck!

Chris

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