Celina, thanks for posting the 2013 Penumbra themes. I may have some short fiction ideas, after all.
When Musa asks for the "first twenty pages" to be embedded in the query email, what exactly are they after? My MS is currently double spaced with page breaks between chapters, so should I undo the formatting and then count the twenty pages, count them as is, or is there a word count estimate that I should go by?
Gearing up to query tomorrow!
I would send it to the general submissions and mark it for the Terpsichore editor, that is the general contemporary line.
When Musa asks for the "first twenty pages" to be embedded in the query email, what exactly are they after? My MS is currently double spaced with page breaks between chapters, so should I undo the formatting and then count the twenty pages, count them as is, or is there a word count estimate that I should go by?
Gearing up to query tomorrow!
I will send myself a test copy...
(On a side note, sending yourself a test copy is relatively inconclusive. Because you wrote the e-mail in your e-mail client, it will most likely render it the same way in itself, if you get my drift. If it looks good when you get it back, you still can't rest 100% assured that it will look good to anyone else. The "copy-and-paste into Notepad/Wordpad/similar text editor, save, then copy-and-paste to your e-mail" method is usually the safest way to be sure all the potentially wonky formatting is removed.)