Clay Gilbert returns to present Getting
Your Manuscript In Shape for Submission during the Promo Day 2016 event on Saturday 14th May.
Bio:
Clay Gilbert has been hearing the voices of aliens,
vampires, and people from the future since about the age of four. It wasn't long before he started to think
taking notes on what they said might be a good idea. This has led him many places—through the halls
and classrooms of many schools, where he's been both in front of the teacher's
desk and behind it, himself—to presenter's podiums at conventions, and, most
often, to the comfortable chair behind his writing desk at home, where he uses
his Dell computer as both a beacon and a translator for the voices that still
find their way through from countless worlds and planes of existence. Clay is
the author of Annah: Children of Evohe, Book One, Dark Road to
Paradise, and Eternity, as well as the Chief Editor for PDMI
Publishing. These days, the place he
calls home is Knoxville, Tennessee, where his cat, Bella, and his ball python,
Andy, keep him company between visits from a teenaged alien named Annah, an
undead, blood-drinking English professor named Martin Cabot, and a boy from the
future named Eternity. And it's a good
thing, too—life is busy. And Clay's
still taking notes.
Social media links:
Twitter: @ClayGilbert1
Out of the webinar:
Overview: So You Think You’re Ready To Publish—Let’s
See
1) What
Do Editors—and Audiences—Look For? Does My Manuscript Have It?
a) Completed
manuscript—captivating opening, satisfying story development, compelling
wrap-up and ending
b) Well-developed
and interesting characters—the character determines the events; the character
compels the reader
c) Internal
logic—does everything make sense?
d) Fresh
ideas—or at least a new spin on old archetypes or classic situations
2) Assessing
Your Draft—Ready—Set—Go?
a) Don’t
submit a first draft. Let it sit; get some distance.
b) Polish—if
it’ll shine up a car, it’ll shine up your story
c) Revise—sometimes
the BEST way to say something isn’t the first way we think of
3) It’s a Pitch, but Is
It a Hit? Learning how to Shape Your Submission
a) Importance
of a synopsis—be able to boil down your book into a paragraph summary.
Your reader—and your editor—only have so much time. Put the best points
of your book forward.
Summation: Once you’ve dealt with these aspects of
polishing and packaging your work, you’re ready to submit—and hopefully, to
publish!
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