Professional Manuscript Reviews


2010 Professional Manuscript Reviews

Any BTO conference attendee may arrange for a one-on-one manuscript review for a fee of $40. The writer will have half an hour, on the day of the conference, with a published author/instructor who will have studied the manuscript and can draw on professional experience to offer insights and recommendations.

This is a limited opportunity on a first-come basis. Send manuscripts prior to January 15, which will give reviewers time to consider your writing. Writers will be advised about the time and location of their reviews when they check in on February 20. 

Manuscript reviewers for 2010 will include Barbara Esstman, Sue Ellen Thompson, Kate Blackwell, Austin Camacho, Ally Peltier, and others (see their biographies on the Program link).

You may submit prose up to 25 pages for review, including a title page.  Nothing over 25 pages will be read. Poetry should be limited to 50 lines.

FORMAT
The details outlined below are required for BTO manuscript submissions. Any MS prepared otherwise will be returned unread.

FONT: Times New Roman or Courier New, 12-point

MARGINS AND SPACING:
  Use 1” margins—top, bottom, left, and right.
  Do not justify the lines for text—use flush left, ragged right.
  Double-space only (not single, not 1.5).

TITLE PAGE:
  Upper left corner, single-spaced: Name, address, telephone,                                                                      fax (if applicable), e-mail
  Upper right corner: Word count
  Centered on page, double-spaced, starting 3 inches from the top:
             [Title of Your Work] (boldface, all caps)
                                   by
             [Your Name or Pseudonym] ("normal" font)


MANUSCRIPT: Set headers for all MS text pages 1” from the top.
  Upper left: Writer’s name / TITLE OF WORK (use the slash and put            the title in all caps)
  Upper right: Page number

The title and/or chapter number starts 3” from the top of the first page of the text. Double-space under the title and use 5-space indentions for every paragraph except the first one, which should be flush left under any chapter or story title. Don’t forget that every piece of dialogue starts a new paragraph.

Payment for manuscript review is separate from registration.

Submit your manuscript (as an attachment only) to: jreveal@verizon.net

Make check out to Bay to Ocean Writers Conference and mail to J. C. Reveal at address below:
  J. C. Reveal
  301 Wood Duck Drive
  Greensboro, MD  21639




FOR MORE INFO OR OTHER QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE BTO CONFERENCE:
Send e-mail to info@baytoocean.com.


Photographs of 2006, 2007 and 2008 Bay to Ocean Writers Conferences ©  Ann E. Dorbin, Paragon Light Inc.
Photographs of 2009 Bay to Ocean Writers Conference © Wilson Wyatt and Leslie Walker.