http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/-t1.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:54:28 GMT 10 http://jaebaeli.com/KIWI/kiwilogo2.png http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/-t1.htm http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/slings-and-arrows-t33.htm Jae Baeli (24Nov07) Recently, I was offered a publishing contract on my novel Achilles Forjan. I allowed myself to get all excited and when the hard copy of the contract came, I realized it was not the same as the "sample." I didn't like the idea of handing over the rights to my own book for SEVEN years. I didn't know this publisher well enough to entrust my work for such a long time. And then there was being at the mercy of their idea of what my work was, what it should look like, how it ... Publishers & Agents Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:54:28 GMT http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/slings-and-arrows-t33.htm#34 http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/slings-and-arrows-t33.htm http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/lies-from-the-publishing-sindustry-t26.htm Jae Baeli When an author submits work to a publisher, there are guidelines that must be followed, and they will always be very clear about what those guidelines are. Some of them are industry-wide. Some of them are also without merit and bordering on either absurdity or outright lies. One demand that publishers seem to spew with regularity is that all manuscripts must be in a certain font; what is called a serif font. Serif fonts have those little tiny flourishes or extras on the letters. The most ... Publishers & Agents Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:59:05 GMT http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/lies-from-the-publishing-sindustry-t26.htm#27 http://kindredinkwriters.forumotion.net/publishers-agents-f13/lies-from-the-publishing-sindustry-t26.htm