Questions to ask yourself, before submitting your book to a publisher: 1. Is it finished? 2. Have you said everything that you want to say? 3. Are all the parts there? 4. Are they in the correct place? 5. Did you run a spell-check? 6. Did you put it aside, then re-read it, to make sure it made sense? 7. Are pictures or illustrations included, and in the correct locations? 8. Do you have an idea for the cover? If you answered yes to all of these, then your book is ready for submission. If you answered no to any of these, then you still have work to do. If you provide 29 pages of changes, once the book is published, then something is wrong at your end. A publisher checks to make certain that dog is not spelled dawg. They do not check facts, they do not know, or care, about the color of a characters sweater, or the name of the bar they decided to drink in. It is the publishers job to publish your book, not co-write it, or assemble the pieces. If you are still making changes to the content, then it is not finished. If you havent written chapter ten, then it is not finished. If you dont have the illustrations yet, then it is not finished. Publishers are busy. They have many other clients, who require things as well. It makes the process go much smoother and more quickly, if they receive completed manuscripts, and not works in progress. Most other publishers would simply reject an unfinished book, or refuse to make alterations once the book is published. We have, up until now, attempted to be accommodating, however, as our workload continues to increase, the number of people who decide to correct errors seems to be increasing. As mentioned earlier, an error is spelling dog as dawg. Changing the name of a characters boyfriend is not fixing an error, it is altering content. Changing the date of your sons football game is not fixing an error, it is altering content. And honestly, it simply doesnt matter. Something so trivial is not going to impact the sale of your book. The reader isnt even going to notice it, nor are they going to care, nor are they going to see it before they purchase the book anyway. When a book is submitted, it needs to be finished. We simply do not have time to be making changes to already published works on a regular basis. Thank you for your understanding.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:10:16 +0000
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