#Rules for book manuscript title page plus#

Space down about four lines (each of which is double-spaced, so it’s really eight lines). Beneath it, in a normal font size, type your name.

Begin the book with a title page that has the title in 36 point type, centered on the page.

Double-space all text in the main body of your manuscript.

Editors are pretty smart and they know it’s a page number.

Just put the number, without prefacing it with the word “page”. I n the footer for each page, put the page number, centered.If the editor hates the title, she’ll be reminded of how dumb it is every time she turns the page.) All word processors let you define a header that will be on every page. In the header for each page, put your last name, right-justified.Don’t use Courier (that went out with typewriters). Don’t use Helvetica or any other font without a serif. All text is 12-point Times New Roman (or Times Roman).The main thing is to make the manuscript readable for the editor and to put as few speed-bumps on each page as possible.

#Rules for book manuscript title page plus#

Sol edited about 1600 manuscripts, plus he authored a number of books. Much of this I learned from Sol Stein years ago in a small group that he taught in Laguna Beach. Here is how I format my manuscripts for submission to publishers. You just need to present it to a publisher in a format they’re expecting. So you don’t need to stress much about making camera-ready copy. doc format) and convert it to the final typeset form. Remember that your publisher has a typesetter to take your manuscript (typically in Word. Since we’re talking about scene formatting, let’s address the various other issues that can come up. You need to give the reader some visual cue that the scene has changed. The one thing you don’t want to do is to do nothing. I generally put one line with three asterisks centered as my scene break within a chapter. To answer Morgan, you show a scene break in any of those ways. Randy sez: This is a good question and opens up several other questions on formatting scenes. How do you show a break between scenes in a single chapter? I’ve seen some books where they put something (like a symbol or stars or dots) and I’ve seen others where there is a lengthy space before the new scene begins. Morgan posted this question on my “ Ask A Question For My Blog” page: Today’s question is a tactical question on formatting a scene in a manuscript.