I really appreciate that advice, especially since I hope to send out my manuscript within the next couple of months, and I feel like getting published is going to be even harder than writing the book itself. So thanks for sharing your expertise! :)
My novel has two first person PoVs. I'm not sure if I made that clear, before, but does that change your opinion on the font color? I'm not really sure yet who gets to decide the format of the actual books, whether it's the publisher or the author, and if my future publisher suggests we go about...
I can't say that I've read Don Quixote or Les Mis (I've seen the movies; that's about it) or Shogun, but I did try reading ASOIAF. Personally, I did not enjoy the vast number of perspectives. Some of them were necessary, because they're main characters, like Dany and Jon Snow and Arya and...