And she’s off!

[rolanni]

“Intelligent Design” has been transmitted to Toni at Baen. Man, I love me some email submissions.

“Intelligent Design” final draft
11,878 words

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

Fabulous!! When will it be up and can we download and print it?
Sam

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

it's going to be one of the front page stories on the Baen website. I think Tony said summer? And they are collecting them in a Free Library volume http://www.webscription.net/p-1387-free-short-stories-2011.aspx -- note the advice that this can be freely copied and shared, but not sold. So download and print certainly seems reasonable.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Blast. That should be Toni, of course.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Coolio!*rubs hands in anticipation*

[dmellieon.livejournal.com]

MUST find/remember webscription.net password!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't need one for the free library stuff. And the story will be up at www.baen.com in July, I think?

[laurahcory1.livejournal.com]

Right, it'll be up on the main page, no password needed. July or August, I have to check my schedule.

Intelligent Design

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Congrats on Intelligent Design going to the publisher. And yes, we would all like to know when it will be up on the Baen web site. June? July?

Yay,
C.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[(Anonymous)]

Yaow, you go, girl!
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks, watching the google books settlement go to defcon Congress, and not sure that Congress will do the Right Thing

And She's Off!

[trekgirlmo.livejournal.com]

I'm curious...in what form does the story to the publisher? Do you send a Word file and then they convert it to something printable or do you use a special program?

Thanks,

Maureen

Re: And She's Off!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

We send a .doc or an .rtf file to Baen, and had done likewise with Meisha Merlin. What happens to it after that, in terms of formatting, I wot not.

I hear from my faculty that some academic presses not only require the author to produce and revise their manuscript, but also to hire a copy editor, and to format the book for printing. (All this, and some of them give up their copyright, too. For royalties after the press earns its nut back.)

I had also heard, some years back, that smaller genre presses were asking their authors to format their books for the printer. I haven't heard this in a while, but I don't know if that means that it didn't work out, or that the demand has become so mundane that no one blinks.