Publishing 101

You’ve got an idea in your head that sounds like the perfect story. And, before you know it, you’ve put pen to paper, downed gallons of coffee over a ridiculous amount of time, and created a world you hope everyone else will want to live in for a while. But, getting your book in people’s hands is a taller order than the boujee-est latte at Starbucks. And, while there are many routes to publishing, you’ve chosen the more traditional route—submitting your manuscript to publishers. Seems easy enough, right? Riiiiiight. If your google search on publishing doesn’t give you a little anxiety, then you’ve got nerves of steel. Either way, EWR is here to help.

We hope the articles and links we’ve provided settle your questions and get you started in the right direction. While we’ve got plenty of new content on its way, here are just a few subjects we’ll cover to take you from manuscript to publisher:

The benefits of using beta readers
Dealing with feedback
The benefits of editing services
Why you might need a literary agent
Big Pub vs Small Pub
The query process
Pitch contest and writing conference tips
Agent interviews and signing
How to build your brand as an author
Working with publishers (contract to release day)

Getting your dreams off the ground is a lot of work, we know. But, we believe in writers, and we’re excited you’ve chosen us as a resource to turn your story into something the entire world can enjoy. So, make another cup of coffee, let us help you, and don’t forget to tell us about your journey along the way. Leave us a comment or share an article. And let us know if there’s any other content you’d like to see from us in this ever-changing industry. #NeverStopWriting

Should I Self Publish My Book?

April 8, 2023 by admin 2 Comments

Should I Self Publish My Book?

If you are thinking about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing, you may also struggle with the question, Should I self publish my book? So in this article, I will focus on the benefits and pitfalls of self-publishing and why it might be a good or bad option for publishing.

It would be best if you kept your options open. If you have taken the time to write your book, you should take every avenue possible to make it a success. The steps to getting your novel that I recommend are to try to get an agent first. Shop your book for a while; if you don’t get an agent, then self-publish your book.

What am I giving up if I self-publish

If you go it alone and self-publish, there are things you will have to do that a publisher would traditionally do for you. Small, medium, and large publishers generally offer editing, formatting, and cover services. So those things you will have to do on your own. Also, you will be giving up a little bit of prestige. There is still some prestige in getting published with a traditional publisher. It will make little difference in sales, but some people still put stock in this. Many people do not.

Should I self publish my book: steps to self-publishing

1 Editing your book

Editing is the most challenging part of self-publishing. There are two kinds of edits, and the first one is monumental.

1a. Content editing

If you self-publish, you will need to content edit your work. You can’t do this yourself, and it isn’t easy to find a seasoned editor. It takes a lot of skill and understanding, and objective perspective, so you will need to run your book through rounds of beta readers to review and give you comments on your work. It would be best to have feedback, so you will need to find people willing to read your work and give you notes. It is a must. You want dozens of readers to provide notes on your book so you know what is working and what is not.

After you get these notes, you must decide what you need to keep and what you need to throw out. It is why several rounds are essential. If you get the same notes repeatedly, you know you have to make changes.

1b. Proofing

Proofing is not editing. It’s just checking the manuscript for mistakes. Most editors you hire can do this. They will make sure your grammar, spelling, and everything like that is good. You should probably use an AI editor first. Editors can be expensive, so you want to have as few passing at the end as you can.

3. Cover and artwork

You will have to find someone to do your artwork for your book. Paying someone to do this will make your book look more professional in the long run unless you are a graphic designer. Covers of books are what sell books these days. So make sure to take advantage of this part. Make sure you love the book cover and that it represents the work.

4. Pick your platform

Now you must pick the platform you want to publish your work on. There are a few. Amazon is usually the one that everyone likes these days but do your research. Depending on the subject, your book may do better on Barns and Novel or IngramSpark. Just make do your research, and ask other authors for their opinions.

5. Formatting and uploading

The platform will dictate your formatting. You will need to format and then upload your work. It is a process, and you have to be careful nothing happens unintended to your work when you make the changes.

6. Pricing

You will have to set a price for your book. Again you have to do your research.

7. Marketing

Marketing is critical to sales, of course. Does it matter if you write a book and no one reads it? So you will have to do your marketing to your book out there. It would be best if you had a target audience. I talk about marketing your book in other articles, so I’ll stay brief here, but there are all kinds of marketing, social, real world, and newspaper; it’s complete and takes a lot of work. You will need to do research and a lot of leg work.

7. Sales goals

You will have to put your business hat on here. If you have someone in your life to help with this, great. If not, it is more research. You will need to set targets and goals for selling your book. It’s not easy to do for someone with no sales experience, but with research, anything is possible.

There is a comprehensive neverending list of the thankless jobs of self-publishing a book. It is much more complicated than it looks when you first approach it, but please consider these things first. Many authors leap before they look, then play a game of correction and catch up the whole time.

Right now, you might tell yourself you don’t care about people reading your book; you want it in print. It’s a trap. Each step here is a necessity you will come to if you self-publish your book. The list above isn’t suggestions. They are what will happen as you go along. Each step will demand more and more from you. If you do these things first, you’ll retain the freshness of your work. You don’t want to set a target audience four months after the book comes out. You don’t want to set target sales goals a year too late. At first, you might only care about being in print, but then you’ll want people to read it, then you’ll want to make money for your hard work, and so on. These things are the natural steps in this process. Plan them out first.

All those steps above are what great publishers used to do for authors, and small book publishers still do many of them for the author; that’s why shopping your book to agents first is still worth the effort.

All this being said, the hard work, the fact that traditional publishers do a lot for you, and all of that, self-publishing is still a good option if you can’t get your book out there other ways. Many people took the self-publishing route and ended up making it. Sometimes lightning strikes and your dreams turn out, but every single author who has ever been successful at self-publishing was savvy about this process.

Note on this article

I wrote an article on this about 15 years ago. This article is an “update” of that article, but it is a complete rewrite. Things have changed so much since that time almost nothing in that article applies today.

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How to Publish a Book: A complete guide

April 7, 2023 by admin 6 Comments

How to publish a book:

A complete guide and in-depth look at all the options

How do I publish a book?

Quick Answer: There are 4 options today: 1. Traditional publisher 2. Small Publisher 3. Vanity Publisher 4. For self-publishing, this guide takes an in-depth look at all the options.

In today’s world, choice is everything. If you try to publish a book and publisher’s door closes, a publishing window will open, but there are vast differences in publishing options in the 21st century. Should you self-publish your book? Should you hold out for a traditional publisher? Writers have been asking these questions for 100 years. Walt Whitman self-published The Leaves of Grass, but is self-publishing still a good idea today? This article will examine the most popular publishing options and discuss the pros and cons.
The Agent and the Traditional Large and Medium publisher.

Information: When should I publish with a traditional publisher?

• If your book is marketable
• If your book appeals to a large audience

1. Traditional Publisher

A traditional book publisher is a book publisher that buys the rights from an author and then publishes and promotes the author and their book. When people dream of being an author, this is the option they are dreaming of. The publisher believes in your book and puts their editors, money, and promotional staff behind it and you. Stephen King, John Grissom, and Tom Clancy all publish with traditional publishers. Mostly, we are talking about large and medium size publishing houses. The Big Five and many of their subsidiaries fall in this classification.

You Will need an agent!

You need to know some things about publishing with a large or medium size publisher. Competition for traditional publishing is fierce. Many publishers have less than a 1% acceptance rate and do not take unsolicited works. If they take unsolicited works, generally, it’s almost only possible to get published with these companies with an agent. It’s an ugly truth of the publishing world.

Get an Agent

Getting an agent is an entirely different process. If you are going to get an agent, please do your research. There are lots of sharks in these waters. Do not let them charge you to read or edit your work. They should shop your work for large and medium publishers, but do not let them scam you. Find publishers who represent reputable authors. You can even contact other authors who the Agent represents as a reference before you sign anything!

Editors will change your book

So one of the major complaints of people who go with large traditional publishers is how much editors change their work. In many cases, you are assigned an editor who sits in edits with you for months before your book is published. We are not talking about spell-checking; we are talking about large-scale changes, adding characters, and taking out or adding scenes. Many authors say their books are much different, even unrecognizable from their beginnings. So keep this in mind. If you publish with these publishers, they will shape your work for what they will be a success. This means they want to give it the best chance of doing well.

Marketing and placement is everything

So the real secret of being a success in the literary world, or publishing world, is generally marketing and placement. Writing good works is a big part, but large and medium publishing houses have publicity machines behind them. They get you book tours and send you out even on the local news, do press releases, and ensure your books are featured on that table when you walk into bookstores. If they don’t do this, many times, the book fails.

Just because you get a deal doesn’t mean you’ve made it

Marketing (in most cases) helps books be a success. Without marketing, many authors see their books sit on shelves and gather dust. Your book is stuck if the publishers aren’t behind your work and don’t get a good initial response.

Filled with rewards

If publishing with a traditional large or medium book publisher goes well, it can be all you dreamed of. Yes, they send limos. Yes, they give you an advance. Yes, they spend time with you getting your book right. There may be drawbacks to some of this kind of traditional publishing, BUT for the most part, many of your heroes have gone this way!

It’s difficult to know when to say when

So with the rewards of publishing with a traditional publisher being so great, why would you ever go any other way? Why would you self-publish? Why would you go with a small publisher? We will address these questions, but knowing when to say when is challenging. Many old-school writers feel you should shop your first book to agents. While you are doing this, write your second book and then your 3rd, the theory is that you’ll eventually be published, and all the past works that did not publish will be published when you have established your name. This is an old-school way of looking at it, but it doesn’t mean it is wrong. If you only want to publish with a traditional publisher.

Examples of large and medium books publishers:

The Big Five

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group/Macmillan.
Hachette (publisher)
Harpercollins
Penguin Random House
Simon & Schuster.

What is a small publishers? When should I go with a small publishers?

When do you publish with a small book publisher?

When you are writing works that appeal to a small audience (academic literature, for instance)
When you are publishing poetry (not always, but much of the time)
When you are publishing short stories (not always, but much of the time)
When your book does not sell, and you hope to republish it with a more prominent publisher (last resort)

2. The Small Book publisher

Small book publishers have been around as long as large and medium book publishers. They are still traditional publishers. Small publishers still take your book, edit it, and sell it. The big difference is that they are small.
To understand what I mean by small publishers, think of it this way. Generally, small publishers will print between 200-1000 copies of a book. Then they will sell it to a small audience. In the old days, that was it. Those books would have a simple and limited print run. Today, they can be printed on demand. More and more small book publishers have gone in this direction.
Literary writers, like university professors or poets, often publish with small publishers. Many small book publishers are university presses, and sometimes they serve the community of professors who live by the mantra publish or perish. Some of these publishers feed this system but also publish unique and high-quality works that often wouldn’t get published otherwise.
Other small publishers are independent publishers trying to make money from small and print-on-demand print runs. Sometimes these publishers are attached to independent bookstores; other times, they are just dedicated authors and editors putting forward an effort to bring great literature into the world.

Beware of Predators

Still yet other publishers, in the darkest and sadly someone prominent publishing universe, are predators hunting sheep. They do not trust the author’s work; they only trust in making money off an author beaten up by rejection. They charge for various services, intending never to sell a single book. To avoid these lions waiting in the tall grass, follow these simple rules:

Never pay to publish with a traditional or small publisher
Never pay for editing
Never pay for publicity
Never pay anything; if they believe in your work, they will pay for everything!

Try, Try, Try, Try

If you have shopped your book around to large and medium publishers, and there are no takers, you have 2 choices. You can put the book in a drawer and wait or start shopping with small publishers. If you wait, you, of course, should start writing another book right away. If you become a published author, you can shop that to a publisher as your 3rd book. If you go with a small publisher, honestly, by the time you make it to your 3rd book, you can republish it with your mega publisher (make sure you don’t sell away all your rights)!
Small publishers are a great second option for a novel. Indy presses, many times, have their books picked up and republished by large publishing houses, especially if the book does well. You should only expect a little hoopla or fanfare if published with a small publisher.

Marketing and distribution

The small and indie presses usually have little marketing. You may have to do this yourself. Marketing is everything in publishing. People read what they hear is good. Large publishers get their books in newspapers, online, and at the front of bookstores. You won’t have this machine helping you. You will make little money, and many will likely not read your book. You should know that every once in a while, none of this holds, and the author succeeds all on their own (more about this later).

3. The Vanity Publisher

The idea behind a vanity publisher is straightforward; you pay them to print your book. You pay them for editing, rewriting, and other services. Vanity publishers have been around for a very long time. By most accounts, the late 1800s saw the advent of this type of publishing, though vanity publishing probably began much earlier.
Vanity publishing was the only way to publish a book if all publishers turned you down from, let’s say, the 1850s until the invention of print-on-demand technology in the 1990s (well, this is when the technology became cheap enough for people to use). At that time, we see a split between Vanity publishers and self-publishing. Until the 1990s, Vanity publishing and self-publishing were the same thing.

How did it work?

People paid publishers to publish a sizable print run of your books. They ordered 1,000 copies. They get a discounted rate on these books but pay for them. In exchange for the discount rate of publishing, the publisher kept some or all of the rights to your book. They might market your book, sell it, and split some of the earnings with you. Sometimes you pay for services.
Publishing has become so complicated now that this model has dozens of versions. Generally, vanity publishers existed in the past to offset the cost of printing and production of your book. Still, with print on demand, there is the only reason for a vanity publisher if they will market your book for you, but this is very rare.
When we talk about authors of the past self-publishing, honestly, most were using vanity publishers. Authors like Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and Carl Sandburg all published with either vanity or self-publisher (depending on how you split the hairs).

Marketing?

You will be marketing your book. Generally you, and you alone.

4. Self-Publishing

Twenty years ago, self-publishing (print on demand or buying a print run yourself) was, to be blunt, a joke. A few books became famous after self-publishing, but they were generally featured on infomercials. Self-publishing was the funeral pyre for books that were never published. You could pay for a print run, but honestly, you would spend days, weeks, or months driving them around in the back of your car, trying to sell them to get your money back (See John Grisham). There were more viable solutions to becoming a successful author. It was also costly.
Today, everything has changed. Some best-sellers are self-published books. Self-published books outsell traditional Big Five Publishers. Why? Print on Demand (POD) and online platforms like Amazon. POD technology has come down so far in cost that for 5-10,000$ you can buy our machines. Why would you want to when places like Amazon are happy to publish your book for you as long as you share in the profits? Generally, these days, you have some excellent pricing options too.
In the old days of 1901-1992, you had to spend a lot of money upfront to get publishers to self-publish your book. You did everything yourself in this process. You had the cover, you did the layout, and you did everything. You would pay the publisher 1000s of dollars for a print run of your books. When finished, they were your books. You sold them, you marketed them, and you didn’t owe anything to the publishers.

Beware of Sheep in Wolves Publishing

So as with any publishing venture, DO YOUR RESEARCH! With self-publishing, it’s easiest for most writers to stick to the big 2 self-publishers. First, you have Amazon Kindle, of course. This is an excellent platform. It uses Amazon’s platform, and promoting your book is generally straightforward. There is also Smashwords. It’s easy to publish a book on either platform, and you know both platforms are not working to defraud you.

What is self-publishing?

Self-publishing today is very simple. You write the book. You upload your book. You list your book on a large marketplace site like Amazon; if you sell any copies, the publishers split the cost. If you set your price at $10, Amazon may take $5. It’s all worked out upfront, but people are doing it every day, and it is by far the most popular form of publishing.

Make sure you know what you are getting into. You should not have a contract or a time expectation if you are self-publishing. It’s best to go with one of the large and well-known self-publishing platforms, like Smashwords or Amazon, to be safe. If you go with a different platform, make sure you do your research.

Who does the marketing?

You do all your own marketing.

A few thoughts

The first and most crucial publishing rule is always: DO YOUR RESEARCH. There are countless scams out there. Since the advent of the printing press, people have been scammed by phony publishers. It’s terrible but very real. Scam publishers will take your money, promise you the world, and leave you with nothing. It is if you’ve found something too good to be true. Every Writer is happy to help. You can contact us with your questions at eds [at]everywritersresource.com. You can also check out the Book publisher’s listing. Some of them have reviews. Please comment below; we are always happy to hear from you and wish you the best in publishing your work. For more information on publishing, please check out our Traditional VS Self-publishing guide.

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10 Words Editors Hate: Do not use!

April 7, 2023 by admin 8 Comments

10 Words Editors Hate:

Do not use!

Yes some overused loaded words turn editors off, and I think these are 10 Words Editors Hate. We are talking about literary writing here. Generally, genre writing is slightly different, and some words are much more acceptable to editors in genre pieces. These words are not bad. Please understand. They are words that tend to lean toward cliché in poetry and literary fiction. Contemporary writers are finding countless exciting and new ways to say these words.

Be very careful if you use these words in your poetry or writing. As an editor, they are so charged that I’ve stopped reading because of them. They can, of course, be used in ways that are not cliché, but many times just the sight of them can send your work into the DO NOT PUBLISH pile.

I’m not saying to avoid these words. It’s really up to you. If you will use these words, make sure you are uniquely using them. Make sure you are using them with the most significant amount of care. Be aware.

1 Soul-this word is number 1 for a reason

Many editors hate it. I was sitting in a first-year university writing workshop years ago when a student wrote, “Eyes are the windows to the soul.” The Professor, a well-known poet who had won many awards and was one of the nicest people you have ever met (a great teacher), freaked out! He was also the editor of a well-known highly-awarded Mid-western literary magazine. He completely lost it. The Professor paced back and forth across the classroom. He was even a little red-faced and said how cliché and childish this phrase was. I always saw him encourage writers, but at this point, he got very real, and I can’t remember his exact words, but they were something like, you will never get published or be professional writing phrases like this!

2. Heart- this word also can get a manuscript rejected quickly!

Again, when I teach writing, I recommend that my students avoid this word unless they use it in a very non-traditional way. It’s just way overused. If you look at classic poetry, especially Renaissance poetry, you can see that poets of the time beat the meaning out of this word.

3. Love-ugh, so many other ways to say this one.

I once handed a poem in, in a writing workshop, on a master’s level, and the writer teaching the course, who was also well-known, said the word love, in writing, in poetry, is “completely meaningless.” It took me a long time to figure this out, which is why the words on this list are so dangerous. They have been overused to the point that they do not mean ANYTHING. They cause an automatic response. There are no feelings left in these words. It’s ironic. These words are the words that should hold the most meaning.

Example using some of these words:

“Her heart broke; she felt so much love for him that her soul turned dark.” This sentence puts all the work on the reader and means little. What if the reader hasn’t ever had a broken heart?

Alternative: The bottom fell out of her lungs, and her chest had a dull pain. Flashes of memories of her holding his head in her lap, him smiling up, her laughing down at him. Inside she felt someone had just unwrapped her insides. It was like she was naked, and a chilling wind blew over her.

This description shows the reader the feelings, love, broken heart, and soul. It does the work for the reader and displays; it doesn’t tell. I know this description could be better, too. Many writers could do much better, but you get the idea. The words heart, soul, and love are telling, not showing.

4. Warmth-tread lightly here. Nine times out of 10, this one will get you rejected.

Here is another word that needs to give me a description. It has been used as an alternative to clichéd phrases so often that it has lost all meaning. When you say warmth, you rely on the reading to bring the feeling.

5. Windows-oddly, more times than not, this one is used in a cliché way. Windows to the soul.

I’m talking here about using windows as a metaphor. It’s way overdone. Windows have been overplayed and overused. If your character looks in a window, it’s alright. Editors do not run from looking in a window. But when the window to the soul, heart, love, or opportunity opens, editors tend to glaze over and stop reading.

6. Forever-don’t use it.

The word forever is hard to use. It doesn’t have a meaning. If you are writing something about god or science or maybe something clever, but for the most part, we cannot comprehend the purpose of this word. There is no frame of reference, and if you say it was there forever, I will love you forever, or it even seemed like forever, you are using hyperbole. If you are being funny, but most times, this word can be replaced with something we can relate to better. Humans have no concept of forever.

7. Death-ok to write about, not great to say.

Yeats said there were only 2 things that writers should write about sex and death, so sex and death tend to 2 things editors scrutinize more than other concepts in writing.

If someone dies, they die. It’s a fact of life, but again using death as a metaphor or doing it in a way that is cliché sends editors running. The problem with these words is they put the editor, many times, on high alert, so they demand more from the writer. As an editor, I have become very aware of how someone is using the word death in writing. I usually stop reading if I sense it’s going the wrong way.

8. Life-see above.

Life is the same as death, regarding how quickly it can turn an editor off. When a writer starts talking about life’s meaning, I generally moan and start typing my rejection letter.

9. Feeling- talk all you want to about them, don’t say the word.

This is one of those cases in which saying a feeling doesn’t have any meaning. It is just a label. It’s a tell, not show kind of thing, so you want to describe what makes me feel the way you feel without telling me how you feel. I was angry or clenching my fists so hard that later I would learn my nails had drawn blood from my palms.

10. Light- do not use

Notice even George Lucas doesn’t talk about the light side of the force in his movies. He will talk about the dark side, but the light is either Jedi or Force. The light side is used in the books and other places, but it has a nuance. It is used much more sparingly than the dark side. ‘Bringing something into the light.” “The light of truth.” “Shine some light on it.” As a metaphor, these are overused. I would avoid them.

In summary, I am not trying to start a flame war here. These words usually put editors on high alert. Once you’ve drawn this card, the editor looks for a reason to discard your writing. Most editors I know truly dislike these 10 words. They are like fingernails on a chalkboard, but if you can figure out how to use these words in a non-cliché way, your writing rises to such a high quality that you take something overused and make it new. Generally, it’s the highest form of art. Taking this risk, however, is not for the faint of heart; your soul may suffer, and you may open a window into the heart of your folly, which would undoubtedly be your submission’s death.

If you dislike me a good deal for saying these things, or you feel I’m right (it’s rare, but it could happen), leave me a comment below. I will respond to it. You should know this was an old piece that was much expanded and rewritten.

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Call for Submissions: Science Fiction Short Stories, Poetry, Books, and More!

March 29, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

Call for Submissions: Science Fiction Short Stories, Poetry, Books, and More!

Short Stories and Poetry

This is our call for submissions for our second print issue of 2023. Our second issue is our science fiction UFO issue. We are looking for science fiction short stories of 1000 words and poetry of up to 6 poems on any subject. We will accept stories and poetry on any topic, but stories and poetry that are science fiction or have a star or sky imagery are preferred.

Your story or poem will first be published on our website, Every Writer (with over 100,000 visitors per month). Then, your poem or story will appear in our print/digital issue in June. Anyone on our mailing list will get a free digital copy, and print copies will be available for purchase.

We want this issue to be exciting and full of science fiction and UFO speculation. We already have many stories and poems to publish in the issue, but we want more!

Send your stories and poems to eds@everywritersresource.com and put June Submissions in the subject line.

Book Promotions

We are looking for science fiction books to promote in our Science Fiction issue. Your book will be featured on a page of our print issue and our site. You can submit your book here: https://www.everywritersresource.com/selfpublished/submit-your-book/

Art Works

We are also seeking science fiction artwork to feature in our print issue. We will have AI art in the issue, but we would love to have original Artwork from artists. Please send 6 to 8 pieces to eds@everywritersresource.com with Artwork in the Subject line.

All the writing, promotions, and Artwork featured in our print magazine will be featured on our site. All rights revert to the authors after they are published with us. We do publish work that has been published elsewhere as long as you still own the rights.

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Our New Magazine!

February 26, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Every Writer will publish a digital/print issue 4 times a year. We have set a publishing schedule for the first time and are taking submissions. If you have published your work, book listing, or literary magazine listing with us, you may already be in the issue! Our new publishing schedule will be as follows:

March 31
June 30
September 30
December 31

On these dates, our magazine will be sent to our email list subscribers digitally and available for purchase in print. If you want this issue, sign up for our mailing list!

Our 2.1 Q1 issue is already being constructed, entitled: Robot Artists Dream of Neon Publishing Deals will be available on March 31. Any poem, short story, or article that has appeared on our site from 01/01/23-03/20/23 will be in this issue! There is still time.

This issue dives into artificial intelligence’s influence on writing and art. We hope you will send us your work and check out our first issue of 2023. If you want to be published with us, send your work to eds@everywritersresource.com with fiction or poetry in the subject line.