Writer's Corner

• Never ever submit a first draft
• Have someone else proof your work
• Get a critique group online or local to critique your work
• Rewrite, Rewrite, Rewrite and Rewrite again
• Read your work to your intended audience and get their reaction.
• Have your Query letter reviewed by your critique group

• Know the guidelines and follow them to a tea
• Show respect to the Editor by knowing their name and addressing them personally.
• Research the various publishers and make sure your work matches what they are doing.
  
• Note that you know what type of books this publisher is selling and how your work would compliment the publishers selling efforts.
• Don't forget the SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope)
• If you can submit online then do - save the trees and your printer ink.
• Some publishers will not return mss - so make sure you don't waste your stamp on a SASE if it isn't necessary.
• Be patient. Its a waiting game.