So, meat and potatoes – meat and potatoes. The wait is over. Let's get down to brass tacks. (I am sure if I work at it I could come up with a few more cliché's.)

If you have been keeping score you will remember that the biggest reason why manuscripts are rejected by the industry is that they just are not publishable by the standards of today. But what are those standards?

If you have done even a small amount of homework, you have no doubt been given a laundry list of writing rules. Those...