Agents often receive many submissions per week. To give your work the best possible chance of getting noticed, make sure it is professionally edited and as polished as possible.
In today’s increasingly competitive market, it’s essential to have your manuscript as polished as possible before submitting it to an agent. Agents can receive hundreds of submissions a month and might only take on one or two new clients a year. Therefore, as a writer, it’s in your best interest to have a polished manuscript in order to get noticed. No matter how great the concept might be, manuscripts riddled with punctuation and spelling errors will, more often than not, receive an automatic rejection. (more…)
