When copying the first ten pages, two chapters, etc. into emails I have been formatting it so there are no indents at the beginning of paragraphs and a single space in between each paragraph. I always thought this would look fine for email queries but then I saw this written on a small publisher's website:
If you’re worried that your email client has deleted your paragraph indentations when you copied and pasted the first 5,000 words, use the commonly accepted email format of an extra space between paragraphs. If you don’t know the find and replace commands to quickly do that, the magazine Heroic Fantasy Quarterly kindly wrote out a quick formatting shortcut for just this reason.
That got me thinking—maybe the appropriate thing to do is to have it indented at the beginning of each paragraph. What do you all do—no indents or indents? Maybe I'm over-thinking this and it doesn't matter either way, but I just wanted to check. Thanks!
If you’re worried that your email client has deleted your paragraph indentations when you copied and pasted the first 5,000 words, use the commonly accepted email format of an extra space between paragraphs. If you don’t know the find and replace commands to quickly do that, the magazine Heroic Fantasy Quarterly kindly wrote out a quick formatting shortcut for just this reason.
That got me thinking—maybe the appropriate thing to do is to have it indented at the beginning of each paragraph. What do you all do—no indents or indents? Maybe I'm over-thinking this and it doesn't matter either way, but I just wanted to check. Thanks!
