Course curriculum

  • 1
    Introduction
    • How to Use the Plan
  • 2
    Module 1 - Targeting Your Submission
    • Your Book and the Publishing Market
    • What Do You Want to Achieve?
    • What Are the Options for Publication?
    • Researching the Market
    • What Are Publishers and Agents Looking For?
    • Targeting Your Submissions
    • Marked Task - Developing an Outline Submission Plan
  • 3
    Module 2 - Completing and Polishing Your Draft
    • Completing Your Draft
    • Producing a Finished Product
    • Reviewing Your Work
    • Producing a Chapter Plan and First Draft Synopsis
    • Feedback from Beta Readers
    • Marked Task - Prepare a Synopsis
  • 4
    Module 3 - Editing Your Draft
    • The Importance of Editing
    • Developmental or Structural Editing
    • Copy Editing and Proofreading
    • How to Edit Your Own Work
    • Reviewing The Structure of Your Book
    • The Pace and Readability of Your Book
    • Beginning, Middle and End - In That Order?
    • Characters and Points of View
    • Marked Task - Summarising the Required Changes
  • 5
    Module 4 - Copy Editing Your Draft
    • How to Copy Edit Your Draft
    • Less is More?
    • Phrasing and Repetition
    • He Said, She Said
    • Show, Don't Tell
    • Whose Point of View?
    • Marked Task: Submit your Reworked Opening Chapter for Review
  • 6
    Module 5 - Preparing Your Submission
    • Targeting your Submission
    • Preparing a Long Synopsis
    • Preparing a Short Synopsis
    • Preparing a Covering Letter
    • Reviewing Your Opening Extract
    • Formatting and Submitting Your Book
    • Getting (or Not Getting) a Deal
    • Marked Task: Submit your Final Submission Package