Preparing Your Manuscript For Pitching Agents With Renee Fountain
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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How can you make sure your manuscript is ready for submission to an agent — or for publication if you go indie? What are the benefits and challenges of traditional publishing? Will they really do all the marketing for you? Renee Fountain talks about these things and more in today's interview. In the intro, Referencing […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business. |
| 0:14.7 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more at thec the creative pen.com. And that's Pen with a |
| 0:23.8 | double N. And here's the show. Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number |
| 0:30.2 | 760 of the podcast, and it is Wednesday, the 3rd of July, 24 as I record this. In today's show, I'm talking about preparing |
| 0:40.2 | your manuscript for pitching agents with Renee Fountain, who is both an agent and a developmental |
| 0:47.0 | editor. And of course, even if you're not pitching agents, preparing your manuscript for publication |
| 0:52.7 | is just as important. So however you choose to publish, |
| 0:56.3 | you will find this interesting. We discuss the main issues with manuscripts, how to tell if it is |
| 1:02.4 | overwritten and thoughts on pacing, then the elements of a pitch package and query letter, |
| 1:08.4 | the pros and cons of traditional publishing, and will they really do |
| 1:11.9 | all the marketing for you, dealing with rejection and more? So that's coming up in the interview |
| 1:17.6 | section. In publishing things, there is an article on self-publishing advice on referencing and citations. So first of all, why is it |
| 1:30.0 | important to provide external evidence to support our arguments to be open and honest about |
| 1:36.3 | where we get our ideas from and to make it easy for our readers to find our sources so they can |
| 1:41.9 | double check or read more about the subject at hand, |
| 1:44.8 | which is why I share it. A lot of my readers like to investigate further. |
| 1:48.9 | From the article, which is on self-publishing advice.org, we cite other people's work to make |
| 1:54.4 | sure our own work is clear, supported, verifiable and honest. These principles are the |
| 2:00.4 | bedrock of intellectual integrity. Now, |
| 2:03.1 | intellectual integrity has a nemesis called plagiarism. Citations are the safety net that prevent |
| 2:09.4 | us from falling into the trap of accidental plagiarism. So there are tips on moral aspects |
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