Develop a plan to track manuscript submissions Now, you’ve done your research and have a strong sense of the industry, maybe even a few agents’ or publishers’ names floating around in your head.
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To that end, consider getting involved in a writing community, where you’ll receive advice on your craft and insider tips on how to get published.Īnd if you have the opportunity to attend a literary festival or workshop, definitely take it! Lots of them have talks from agents and publishing pros about how to succeed in traditional publishing, and you may even get the chance to speak to agents one-on-one. Nothing can replace the power of personal networking in publishing. ✍️ Join writing communities and attend workshops For a more intimate approach, you can also try looking through the acknowledgments in published books for agents and acquiring editors to contact (though you should still check their websites before doing so!). 👩🏽💻 Look through websites and acknowledgmentsĪs you discover new agents and publishers, peruse their websites to see which genres and categories they’re seeking, and indeed whether they’re currently accepting submissions at all. My best advice for submitting a manuscript to a publisher is condensed into five essential steps! Let’s start at the beginning… To help me further this mission, the nice folks at Reedsy have invited me to share some of the contents of my book with you.
My mission is to ensure that no one who reads the book will have their submission rejected because of something easily fixable. It also offers strategies for making your manuscript as strong as it can be. My ebook, How to Perfect Your Submission, is a short guide for authors who want to avoid the common mistakes I see every day.
What may surprise you is that around 50% of the authors who send their manuscripts to me make simple errors that drastically reduce their chances of being published - which is what led me to write my own book on how to submit a manuscript to publishers! This post is written by Scott Pack: an editor, publisher, and author of the book How to Perfect Your Submission.Īs a publisher, I receive a hell of a lot of manuscript submissions.
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