I had now finished another re-draft.
Surely this must be the final product? Surely now I had a good enough
manuscript to entice some company to sign me up?
I had approached agents the first time around
hoping to get one to sign me up as I thought this would be a quicker route to
getting a publishing deal. I was wrong because my first proof (now looking
back) was not good enough. Now I had lost count of the redrafts I had
completed, but was confident that this time I had a better story to entice the
publishing world.
This time I decided to bypass the
agents and try my hand by going direct to publishers. It’s harder than you
think. It’s easy to find the contact details of hundreds of companies around
the world, but very few will accept any unsolicited manuscripts. In fact some
are so blunt with the truth they basically say, “if you send us a story don’t
bother because it will go straight into the bin.”
I spent the week looking on the
internet. First I would find lists of publishers then individually check their
web site for details. Time and time again they said, “We do not accept
manuscripts.” Slowly I found a small amount
of companies in this country which would take them for consideration.
I bit the bullet and sent off my
treasured piece of work to a select hand full, and then once again there I was,
just-hanging-around, waiting for an answer,
What would happen?
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