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Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
The Seven Day Manuscript Machine: Edit Your Children's Book to Genius in Only a Week by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod is brilliant. The book works on the presumption that you do have a finished novel at hand - otherwise it will be hard to follow through with the different tasks. There is one chapter for each of seven days (but you do not have to work through seven days in a row, you can do one day, then have two days break, then do another day, etc.). The first day of the seven days is all about grammar and spelling. Just for that I love the author. So many new writers just do not care about this aspect - and (gasp!) even publish books that are filled with mistakes. Then the book moves on to other topics like characters, word choice and the plot. After seven days, your own novel should look a lot better than it did before you worked through the different chapters.
I picked up The Seven Day Manuscript Machine by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod because I am in the process of writing my own novel - not a children's novel though - and am always interested in learning more about the process that comes with writing, editing, and publishing books. After reading this fantastic book, I can say that I would recommend this book to ALL authors who would like to give their book a good "scrub" before they hand it over to a professional editor. Mrs MacLeod has a great allegory for it: it's like cleaning your house a day before a professional cleaner comes in. You do the superficial cleaning, and then expect the professional to do the deep cleaning. I found that image really suitable for the relationship between an author and the editor. The cleaner your copy is, the more your editor can focus on real problems (i.e. not stupid spelling and grammar mistakes). I wish books like this were forced upon writers who want to publish a book!
