Title of story

Your Name (don't put ‘by')

Go down one line and your story starts here. The first line is NOT indented… and you just keep typing until that paragraphs is finished.

      Your next paragraph starts here because you've fixed your word processor so that the first line (and that means the first line of all paragraphs) is set at 0.5.

      There are no page numbers, no headers, footers, and you have not put your name, address, phone number and all that at the top. Just the title, name, story, bio… that's all that goes into your manuscript. No ‘the end' no *** at the end of the story, none of that. Your scene breaks are centered with one space above and below it before the next paragraph like this:

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 About the author: goes right here, not indented, at the end of the story. If you must leave a link, please make it black, with no underline. There is nothing more stupid in a print book than a blue link that of couse, since it's print, cannot be clicked on.

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Here are the guidelines for an editor sending a manuscript to me:

Three attachments:

TOC
Back of book blurb
The story manuscript

The TOC is exactly the order of stories by who... exact order.. nothing out of order or missing.

The back of book blurb: I like for this to be a list of contributors, this makes it easier for the writer to add this to his/her author page, but if you must make it a blurb about the book.. only ONE paragraph.

The manuscript:

Please, don't put a TOC here: or page numbers: these are done by someone else!

One story after the other, a new page break after each story/bio. YOU make the page break, this is so that a page ends after each story.bio, the next story begins on a new page, of course.

Format... title, by line centered, first line of story NOT indented, all the rest of paragraphs ARE indented 0.5, scene breaks are denoted by *** centered... first paragraph after scene break is NOT indented.

Double dashes are changed to one dash...

Everything is justified. After you justify a manuscript, you have to make sure the every title, by line and scene break are truly centered.

Anything in the story that is underlined, YOU change it to italics, and get rid of the underline.

PLEASE edit your manuscript. I do not want to see simple mistakes, such as use of effect/affect/then/than/it's /its/they're/their mistakes, please be an editor and see and fix these problems.

Links do not belong in print books, it looks stupid. So, if a person puts a link in the bio do this: Make the ink BLACK, get rid of the underline... PLEASE!