[CLUE-Talk] [Fwd: June Specials and Events at Softpro Books]

Matt Gushee mgushee at havenrock.com
Wed Jun 5 22:26:13 MDT 2002


On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:59:53PM -0600, Jeffery Cann wrote:

> Sounds cool.  Just wondering though -- how can you write a book these days 
> when you are 'banished' from using _any_ computer for the next 10 years (or 
> whatever his sentence is)?
> 
> Yellow legal pads and a pencil?

Don't laugh. The way I hear it, mainstream publishers don't like
elaborate formatting, and are happy to accept manuscripts that are
plainly typed (as in, with a good-old-fashioned typewriter).

After all, they're going to typeset it anyway.

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/



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