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Archive for January, 2009

SLOG – Formatting for Submission – Exceptions

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

The following excerpt is from $uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill.

Now comes the challenge–the exceptions to the rules.
Some small publishers and magazine publishers have different guidelines.
We were sending numerous articles to one magazine that requested single spaced and just a hard return at the end of the paragraph. When we sent something to another magazine, we used the same formatting—wrong move, and major faux pas.
We sent a letter of apology and resubmitted, but this is not something we want to experience in the future.
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Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill

SLOG – Formatting for Submission – Page 1-2

Sunday, January 11th, 2009


This excerpt is from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill.

The rest of page one and the entire document:

  • One-inch margins.
  • Justify to the left margin only, not the entire text.
  • Double space text but not between paragraphs.
  • Indent at the beginning of each paragraph.
  • The header will continue throughout.
  • When the dialogue changes within the text, be sure to start it on a new line and indent.

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SLOG – Formatting for Sumission Tip 2

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The following is an excerpt from $uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book, by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill.

Page one of manuscript:

Publishers call this part a slug line, but we think of it as a header, since that is the software label we use to insert it. The layout is Name/TITLE (all caps) and flush right page number.

The CHAPTER NUMBER is in caps and then a long hyphen (two hyphens that will merge as one long one when you click ENTER after the last letter of the next word), and the TITLE in caps. This is approximately one-third of the way down the page.

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Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill