Archive for the ‘Reference’ Category

The post approval

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Upon completion of the manuscript and submission of it to the publisher, your editor edits the book. The editor then contacts you with his or her suggestions, to which you respond. In our experience, editors’ suggestions have been greatly beneficial and have enhanced our books. At times, certain editors’ opinions may be hard to swallow, but they’re usually on target. Most editors are extremely professional and will improve your book.
Occasionally, an editor’s suggestions will be off the wall or will move the manuscript in a direction unacceptable to the author. If this occurs and you can’t work it out with the editor, summon your agent to duke it out. It’s part of the service you are paying for.
When you finish making the agreed-upon revisions, your editor will accept your manuscript. At this point, a substantial portion of the advance against royalties is usually payable, frequently half.
If the book is produced in-house, the edited manuscript is sent to the production department. Frequently, production, which includes copy editing, design, and indexing, is outsourced.When these functions are subcontracted, someone in-house reviews them.
After the book is copy edited, the manuscript is sent back to you with the editor’s query marks. When copy editors’ queries are transmitted via a computer file, they must be answered by using an electronic editing feature, which is available in most word-processing programs. Otherwise, copy edits are sent by hard copy and must be attended to by hand.You must address each of the copy editor queries and then send the manuscript back.

Too much hobbies

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Disorganized people are generally wonderful people with many really admirable qualities. And it’s precisely these good qualities that often trips up and lead us into disorder. We are mentally active and excited about life’s many opportunities, so we tend to try out a lot of different activities. Because we’re family-oriented, we want to produce heirlooms, and ways to spotlight the people we love and to preserve memories of them. We are effervescent, and as a result, we tend to lack boundaries. We let our activities take over the house, instead of devising ways to keep then under control. We tend to spend more time than we should on them as well. Being perfectionist, we tend to overdo on the buying of products to support our latest hobby. We reason that its important to have just what we need.

We love to share, so we keep producing an abundance of items to distribute to others. We live in the moment, so we often fail to take note of how our actions will affects us in the future. for example, we don’t think about how bringing all these products into the house, often without adequate storage preparation, will create clutter and disharmony. Because we are interested in a variety of things, we often have several things going all the same time. When we become overwhelmed by tackling too many projects at once, we push unfinished tasks aside. Sometimes, we don’t finish them-eve. We are imaginative and can see possible uses for many different items. So we hoard castoffs and unusual items, planning to use them creatively later. We are frugal and often buy products and equipment just because we believe they are bargains.