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Finally
Incorporate only the feedback you strongly agree
with and print out your fourth and final draft. Send
an electronic copy to your editor, relax and wait for
the feedback from your editor. This can take up to 2
months.
If you’re planning to send your manuscript off to
an agent or publisher, remember to format it cor-
rectly (see page Error! Bookmark not defined..) and
read their submission guidelines carefully!
If you are going to self-publish and you haven’t
already decided who is going to design, convert,
submit and print your self-help book, now is the
time to seek out the best professionals you can af-
ford.
While you are waiting to hear back from your
editor, or researching your dream agent or publisher
you can put your spare time to good use by making
yourself, and your book, more $aleable in prepara-
tion for the next part of this book.
Imagine you were thrown into the Publisher’s Pit
—an imaginary lair where publishers, armed with
juicy book deals and six figure advances assemble
once every blue moon in search of exciting new au-
thors. Each budding author is given 90 seconds to
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