The Writer's Digest Guide to Manuscript Formats

by Dian Dincin Buchman and Dashka Slater

This book covers how to prepare and present - book manuscripts, magzaine articles, short stories, cover letters, proposals, queries, fillers, poems, plays, movie, AV, TV scripts, photos, illustrations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898792932
• ISBN13: 9780898792935
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Guide to Manuscript Formats

This is a great source if you are submiting a manuscript to a publisher, and want to know how to format your submission.

"Angels In Pink"

"Angles In Pink" This book is truly a great story between three friends that become volunteers for a summer program at their local hospital. They had been friends since the 6th grade and had just finished their sophomore year. They planned on going to college together. Each of the girls had their own story. Their lives were so different and that is what makes this story so great! Kathleen enjoyed working in admissions. Her mother had MS and had been in remission but things got worse. Holly enjoyed volunteering on the pediatric floor. Raina's mother was head of nursing. This story is a combination of love, friendship, and emotions. By reading this book, there are many simple lessons learned. For example follow your heart and even when life seems hard always remember that you have friends and family to lean on. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an interesting and suspenseful story.

Excellent Reference, although a little outdated.

I purchased this book in late 1999, as it was one of the only guides to formatting manuscripts and other writer-related documents I was able to find. Since then, I've found several others, but not many that were better. The only other book I like as much (okay, maybe a little better) is Jack Neff's book, Formatting and Submitting Your Manuscript. One of the reasons I like it better is that it's newer, and follows some of the changes that have occurred in the publishing industry since this title was written in 1988.I have used it as my primary reference when writing my novel manuscripts, as well as my query letters, although I've used several other books for them.If you can get this book used, and save a little $ off the cover price, by all means do it, but if you can't I would recommend Jack Neff's book since, like I said, it's newer and covers the current requirements publishers and agents have.

Invaluable reference book for any author

This is a great book for any writer. From poetry, novels, or screenplays to query letters, this book addresses almost any writing format you can think of with clear and illustrated examples. While the advice sections, such as how to write a query letter, are a little weak, the formatting sections are invaluable. I pick this book up often.

THE book on manuscript formats. A must-have for any writer.

This is it. THE book on manuscript formats. Easy to follow, easy to read, with lots of pictures and diagrams to let you *see* how things are going to look. I'd be lost without mine.