I urge our authors to use them as a checklist when preparing manuscripts for submission, and to read the accompanying Editorial from the Programme Director of the center that provides these guidelines (Percie du Sert, 2011).
The Guardian and Legend's new prize is open from today to self-published novels written in the English language – translations are also welcome – with submissions to be read by a panel of Legend's readers.
Out of the 3,741 submissions, I asked to read just seven in full.
Ursula had her first clash with the literary establishment when she and a friend signed up to read submissions for a new Radcliffe literary magazine, Signature.
I had been advised by a former judge to read submissions in a random order and I had read The Secret Scripture early on; I lectured myself sternly about keeping an open mind and allowing it to be supplanted, but it never was.
Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
However, the report added: "While that analysis is valuable, it does not cover all the detail or some of the more idiosyncratic proposals in the submissions, so members of the group are continuing to read the submissions in detail".
This manuscript is not noticeably improved from the first submission, is no easier to read or understand, and does not provide enough detailed analysis to give useful biological insights.
We have several news assistants who have a variety of duties; their most important one is to read the submissions that go to [email protected].
Chris Mullin, the former MP and writer, and one of the judges of this year's Man Booker prize, has refused to use a Kindle to read the submissions.
