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DavidDvorkin

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3. Agents will tend to reject manuscripts with a lot of spelling and/or grammar errors

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:20 PM

Jul 2013

There are exceptions, but why stack the deck against yourself?

My wife's an editor for hire, and I'll toot her horn right here:

http://www.dvorkin.com/ebookpubhelp.html

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I had my sis read some, she says I need an edior due to some speling mistakes... [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2013 OP

It depends. If you had a more complete manuscript it would be easier to shop around, jtuck004 Jul 2013 #1

If a work needs extensive editing, it will probably be difficult for an agent to look at it. Agnosticsherbet Jul 2013 #2

Agents will tend to reject manuscripts with a lot of spelling and/or grammar errors DavidDvorkin Jul 2013 #3

Have you considered at least running it through a spellcheck? SheilaT Jul 2013 #4

Good luck MintyWriter Jul 2013 #5