Manuscript Assessment & Novel Editing -The Writing Consultancy
Professional Literary Consultancy for Emerging and Established Authors
If you have submitted to literary agents, you have almost certainly received this response. “Thank you so much for sending this. I’m afraid it’s not quite right for my list at this time, but I wish you the very best with your submission.” It is polite. It is brief. And it tells you almost nothing …
There are two kinds of writers who never get published. The first submits too early. The manuscript isn’t ready — the structure needs work, the opening chapter doesn’t grip, the protagonist hasn’t quite come alive — but the excitement of finishing overrides the patience needed to revise. The rejections arrive, vague and polite, and the …