Writing a book is the first big step in making your dreams of becoming a published author come true. Whether you are looking to self-publish, or secure yourself an agent, I will be here to ensure your book is the best it can be. Send me the first two pages of your manuscript if you would like a free sample to see my editing style.

When you’re writing the first paragraph of your new manuscript, it’s easy to ignore the formatting. After all, when your eyes are the only ones observing your work, worrying about things like proper page layout, mirror margins, section breaks, and whether or not your hyphens are in the right place can feel like obstacles to simply putting your ideas down on paper. However, once you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re ready to show it to other people, it’s important to make sure it…

My experiences writing the first draft of a novel.

If you think that manuscripts are judged solely on the merit of the story alone, we think you should be sitting down for this next paragraph. It doesn’t matter how many on-trend zeitgeist-welding hipsters your story possesses, if a manuscript offends in some other way, it may never be read.…

Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write! Where Writers Write is a weekly series that will feature a different author every Wednesday as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and/or video. As a lover of books and all of the hard work that goes into creating them, I thought it would be fun to see where the authors roll up their sleeves and make the magic happen. This is Mark A Rayner. Mark has explored many storytelling media; the theatre…

I’m currently hard at work on my third full-length YA manuscript. The first lives in a drawer with a stack of rejection letters and the second, Neverland, will be published by Penguin Random House …

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The completed manuscript. About 700 pages of paper that will turn into about 500 in book form...

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