Submitting to agents and publishers - how getting their feedback means you're close to getting published
Someone once asked, "How do you know when you're ready to be published". The answer was "when you start getting feedback from agents and publishers." Feedback from agents and publishers is golden. Worth a thousand times more than feedback from friends, about a hundred times more than critique from peers, and ten times more than a paid appraisal. Agents and publishers simply have no reason to let you know how to improve your work. They're busy. However, once in a while, a manuscript comes through the slush pile (that is what the unsolicited material is called in case you don't know) and it piques their interest, so they read the submission material yet it's still lacking...something. And they do something that will improve your book tenfold - they tell you what's wrong with it. Tip no: 1 Know your audience Let's first take a look at who agents and publishers are. A lot, not all, are successful editors. Some, not all, are writer