The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript

Book info: The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript (Kindle, 240 pages) – New World Library, 2020. Language: English.

An Indispensable Guide for All Writers in All Genres The bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of these problems are easy to fix — once the writer sees and understands them. After several years of evaluating manuscripts, literary agent Elizabeth Kracht noticed that many submissions had similar problems, so she began to make a list of the pitfalls. The Author’s Checklist offers her short, easy-to-implement bites of advice, illustrated by inspiring — and cautionary — real-world examples. Most aspiring authors yearn for a friend in book publishing. The Author’s Checklist is just that.