Those days are gone–special paper to type manuscripts and legal documents.

Just use plain white paper.

Agent, publishers and printers will want the final manuscript in electronic format.

Use WORD for text; 12 pt. font; double spaced; 1″ margins; your full name, book title, your email address or telephone number in header (so that if pages get separated, there’s no confusion as to who the author is); pages numbered.

Cover sheet (no page numbering) would show:

Also, back-up all your electronic files.  Get yourself a flashdrive to back up your manuscripts and photos. Or use an online back-up service. Make multiple back-ups.

From:  http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Book-Peace-Maxine-Kingston/dp/0679440755

The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father’s funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace.

Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “Reach out, not stress out, when building your platform.”

http://writingcoachTeresa.com

Teresa is author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (in print edition and E-book)

Teresa is author of Love Made of Heart (to inspire adult children of mentally ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their families)

Coach Teresa edits manuscripts (contemporary novels; thrillers; children’s novels; memoirs; short stories; anthologies) for authors who want to attract agents  & publishers  OR  want to be their own publishers.