If you've managed to complete your manuscript, congratulations! That's a major achievement, and you deserve to celebrate.

Once you've finished the champagne, it's time to switch hats and convert your opus into a product.

Join Dick Margulis and Writing Show host Paula B. for a most enjoyable discussion about post-writing tasks, including:

* What you need to do after you've finished writing your book

* How a manuscript and a product differ

* Why you should get someone to edit your work

* What an editor does

* Why writers shouldn't take suggestions about their work personally

* What writers and editors should expect from each other

* How editing fiction differs from editing nonfiction

* Why you should ignore what your English teachers told you

* What book design is and why it's important

* How graphic designers and book designers differ

* What factors book designers have to consider

* How books are printed

* What it costs to print books

* What the lead time for getting your book produced is

* When the busiest times for printers are

* What a proofreader does.