I have been reading slush all along and am a little surprised at the wide variety of formatting in submissions. Please don't use weird formatting. This will get your story noticed by editors--but not in a good way.
Here are some tips:
- Do send an rtf file as an attachment.
- Do double space.
- Do use paragraph indents (not spaces, not tabs).
- Don't put in extra spaces after paragraphs--unless it's for a scene break.
- Don't use weird fonts, or huge or tiny font sizes.
These rules aren't arbitrary. If all the manuscripts look the same it facilitates objectivity.
Even more important: if we buy your story it's less work for us to publish it if it's formatted correctly. Editors don't like extra work.
Good luck with your story!
As you may have noticed, we've transitioned this blog to focus more on comments from our artists and authors and less on comments from editors.
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