![]() ![]() The first and easiest excuse is that the manuscript doesn’t look professional. That’s true in the end, but authors swamp literary agents and publishers with more manuscripts than they can possibly consider. They get hundreds of unsolicited novel manuscripts every day-so many that they call the mountain of submissions the ‘slush pile’.īecause of this, and because a lot of the novels in the slush pile aren’t very good, they’re often looking for any excuse to move on to the next one. But surely it’s about how good my story is? Manuscript format: get your novel ready for submissionĪspiring authors often seem to think that manuscript format isn’t that important when they submit their novel to agencies and publishers.
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