Writers and Formatting

Wow. Lately I've seen editors talking about people submitting queries in bizarre, hard-to-read fonts. All I can think is WTF? These writers must not want to be published very much.

I started writing when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I knew I wanted to do more than scribble in my notebook--I wanted to do this professionally. So I asked my mom to drive me to the library and I checked out a bunch of books on how to write and submit.

Yes, when I was 15 years old I knew better than to submit...