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The Author's Checklist: An Agent's Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781608686629 |
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Publisher: | New World Library |
Publication date: | 02/04/2020 |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 621,451 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword John Grogan xi
Introduction xvii
A-To-Z List
Acknowledgments
Agency Guidelines
Appendixes
Audience and Marketing
Author Bio
Author Platform
Author's Note
Book Proposal
Case Histories
Chapter Arc
Chapter Breaks
Chapter Endings
Chapter Heads
Chapter Length
Chapter Summaries
Characterization
Coauthors
Collections
Comparable Titles
Demographics
Detection
Dialogue
Dreams
Epigraphs
Epistolary Elements
Foreword
Formatting
Genre
Introduction
Italics
Lists
Maps
Memoir
Overview
Pacing
Parts
Permissions
Plot
Point of View
Prologue
Promotion and Publicity
Proofreading
Prose
Punctuation
Query Letter
Rejection
Self-Publishing
Setting
Show versus Tell
Subheads
Subtitle
Suspension of Disbelief
Symbolism
Synopsis
Tension
Text Boxes
Themes
Timekeeping
Timelines
Title
Tone
Uniformity
Vignettes
Voice
Word Count
World Building
Conclusion 199
Appendix A Query Letter Examples 205
Appendix B Synopsis Example 211
Acknowledgments 215
About the Author 219
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