Suddenly getting snowed under with manuscript submissions, presumably everyone’s been writing like crazy over the break. Thoughts…
- Almost everyone ignores submission guidelines on the website, some even paste their whole ms into the contact form, just horrible. Toughening up that form right now to stop this.
- Most subs are for 100,000+ word mss, of which 99% or more will be seriously flawed. The best advice I can give these folk is to start coming to Huddles. I do suggest this sometimes, to those projects that seem to have some potential. The response is always no, and quite often offence is taken. But all of them would happily work with me one-on-one. I would need 2400 hours per day!
- As an agent I’m not here to indulge folks’ writing fantasies, I’m here to make money for both parties. Reflect that commercial reality in your sub and you'll succeed.
