Book Length/Emailing

sgunelius · Aug 30, 2007

How do you email a book at 300 or so pages to your agent/publisher? Do you separate it into separate, smaller Word files or just email one big file?

SHBueche · Aug 30, 2007

Check out: yousendit.com where you can send large files, all in one piece. There is a free trial, but of course they'd like you to join their services.

Marlys · Aug 30, 2007

Tripletsmom said:
How do you email a book at 300 or so pages to your agent/publisher? Do you separate it into separate, smaller Word files or just email one big file?

One file works fine. Text files are relatively small--the attachment limit for both Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, for instance, is 10MB. Even a 200,000-word document (over 650 pages) comes in at about 1.5MB.

Stijn Hommes · Aug 31, 2007

Yes, send it in one file. You don't want to drag an agent or editor out of the story because they need to find the next part of the manuscript.

Sunnyside · Aug 31, 2007

Agree with all of the above, and would add that if you can compress it into a single pdf file as well, all the better -- then you don't have to worry about formatting differences between computers and word processors and so on. It will look the way you wanted it to.

Of course, if you want your agent/editor to be able to do more than merely READ your stuff, though, then forget what I just said....

mamawriter · Sep 2, 2007

Hi Tripletsmom!

I'd ask your agent/publisher what s/he prefers -- when I sent my mss to my agent she wanted one file, but when it went to the publisher she wanted each chapter saved as a separate file.

Hope that helps!

Prevostprincess · Sep 3, 2007

I would certainly agree that you should ask what the agent's/editor's preference is. My agent got my entire 89 page (groan) proposal in one doc. But, my editor's been getting each chpt in separate docs.

Book Length/Emailing

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SHBueche

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Marlys

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Stijn Hommes

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