You're going to want to do that anyway.Hey there! I know many of my readers aspire to publishing a novel, and many of them write fantasy and science fiction, so I put this post together to help them. However, her underlings "Jill Marr, Elise Capron, Thao Le, and Jennifer Azantian are currently accepting unsolicited submissions by email."īased on that and some others which I didn't quote or link to, it seems that what you have there is absolutely correct.īut.there do seem to be a LOT of exceptions, and interested parties might consider doing a little legwork. However, she welcomes referred and recommended projects." The eponymous one "is not currently accepting unsolicited submissions. Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (again randomly picked from the results) seems to have a hierarchy. When you submit to Sasquatch Books, please remember that the editors want to know about you and your project, along with a sense of who will want to read your book." We can evaluate query letters, proposals, and complete manuscripts. Sasquatch Books (our randomly-chosen small press) says "Sasquatch Books is happy to consider queries and proposals from authors and agents for new projects that fit into our West Coast regional publishing program. That doesn't mean that Tor will publish anything, you should understand. Just put that in so people reading can be aware that there are exceptions. You get no less social cachet from publishing with Tor than with anyone else. They're a special case, though they are definitely a major publishing house. Tor (not from the hat) has a whole section on how to submit sans agent. I would imagine others of that class feel similarly. They say, in part "If you would like to have your work or manuscript considered for publication by a major book publisher, we recommend that you work with an established literary agent." But they're very conservative, old-school, and that's to be expected. Random House (picked out of a metaphorical hat) certainly seems to agree with you. Let's see what some publishing houses (and agents) say: It bears repeating: To thousands of publishers, "unsolicited" simply means, "query first." Had I followed the definition used here, I might still be trying to woo an agent, or given up in despair. I negotiated my own contract and have been collecting royalties twice a year for the last six years. They then requested (read: "solicited") my complete ms. I sent a query which tweaked their interest. After my top 30 choices nixed it, I approached an imprint of McGraw-Hill which, like 98% of legit publishers, did not accept "unsolicited" (not "unagented") submissions. Otherwise, you risk costing someone a publishing contract - someone like me. If you folks want to use a different definition, one that applies to the UK, you would be doing members and lurkers a service by designating the definition as UK-specific. I'll state this as plainly as possible: "Solicited," is synonymous with "requested" in New York, LA, Toronto, Vancouver and points between. I am acquainted with, and/or friends with, many agented authors. I've dealt with dozens of publishers, editors and agents. I've been a published writer for nearly 40 years. But when it comes to North America (including dear old Canuckastan) what you believe is incorrect. You may believe what you wish, of course.
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