Mars fan)? After seeing the US version of "Life on Mars" (and I guess being two of the few devout fans who stuck with it), my husband and I became even bigger fans of the original BBC version (which started running on our local PBS channel).
I would LOVE to create a desktop background for my...
I do agree with this: The baby boomer mentality that constantly embraces change for the sake of change, and systematically destroys every societal construct that has been in place for many generations before them -- the very same constructs that made it possible for them to HAVE the options...
The common formatting for a MANUSCRIPT is 1.5 or double-spacing with a courier type font, 1" margins all around, and actually 2" for the top (1" for the header that has your book name, your name, and the page number).
For TYPESETTING (which your publisher deals with, not you) is typically some...
Do it if you must, but having served on the judges committees for several authors and other creative competitions, I can tell you first hand that most of these are rigged.
When I first got invited to be a judge -- it's a long story how that happened -- I naively went into it thinking, wow, I...