Over the past few months we’ve been receiving a lot of submissions. Many are in the funnel, going through the polishing process and their novels will be uploaded soon. For this we are truly grateful.
I have some advice to all writer’s who are considering sending their work to an agent or publisher.
Read the Guidelines!
Editors and publishers use this as a simple test to see if the author can read and follow simple instructions.
If the publisher doesn’t seem to have established guidelines, do yourself a favour and default to the standard format as described by most writing how to manuals.
Save your submission in a separate document and attach it to your email.
Why?
1) It shows you’ve done your homework and are serious about a writing career.
2) Long prose in an email is harder for the editor to read, mark their place and make comments. So you’re handicapping yourself with a needless disadvantage right from the start.
Some editors won’t even bother to look at embedded submissions.
Need I say more?
Sue
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