EDITING, SUBMITTING THE MANUSCRIPT

So, you have a finished manuscript and you are ready to Publish.  Well my suggestion is to re-read it to make sure there are no mistakes.  Any given book will have a few typos in them but more than a few can have you lose your credibility as an author.  Not only should you use your spell check/ grammar check but you should consider having your book edited by a professional editor.  This will make your manuscript that much more concrete.

You will have to reformat your book once you have sent it to the publishers if it's not in the correct format already.  I made the mistake of including my photos in my manuscript, thinking my layout was going to be the same.  It is not the same at all.  In fact you have to send each photo as a separate file and indicate where you would like it to be placed in your manuscript.  This was one of the most time consuming parts of having my book published.  I actually had to un-format all the pages after submitting it to the publishers.  They do this because there is a team of people who do the layout for you and with all their entries your manuscript will grow.  My book almost doubled in size.  This also will have a big reflection on  the price point of the book.

Each process takes about 2 weeks to develop, if there are no changes.  Even subtle changes can ad 2-3 weeks on to the development process.  That's why patience and due diligence are major factors in completing the publishing process.