Ghostwriters Anonymous

Formatting manuscripts and the editing process. Welcome to Ghostwriters Anonymous, the podcast for those who give a literary voice to the world. I am your host, Alaina Burnett. In today’s episode of the Ghostwriting 101 series I will be talking about the editing process.However, before we get to that I would like to add a little “p.s.” to our discussion on the writing process. The way you format and structure your manuscript is important. I always provide two versions of a manuscript to my clients, both standardized and stylized.The standardized version is formatted the way a publisher or agent would want to see it. There are countless websites out there that will give you all of the details (just Google “standard manuscript format”), but some of the specifics are Courier font, 12 point font size, plain 8.5x11 white paper, don’t justify the text, etc. While there are some agents and publishers that request something different like Times New Roman font, the vast majority want the manuscript in the standard for