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This article from my Guide to Finding a Book Agent reveals the best way to find literary agents accepting manuscripts, an important warning about literary agents accepting manuscripts, and a shortcut that will save you hours of research (something you won't hear from any other publishing agent).

In other words, some literary agents accepting manuscripts this week won't be accepting them next week.

Literary agents accepting manuscripts want your book, but there are three things you need to know before using our free Literary Agent Directory to contact them:

If I were an author trying to find literary agents accepting manuscripts, I might just skip the whole time - consuming process of trying to figure out which literary agents are accepting manuscripts (and which ones aren't).

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Not exact matches

Applying to agents and traditional publishers is daunting, and only a small percentage of manuscripts are ever accepted.

After I signed the contract, I emailed the other agents who still had my manuscript to thank them and say I'd accepted another offer.

That literary agents can decide whether to accept manuscripts based solely on the marketing plan?

Thousands of manuscripts are submitted to agents and publishers every year; only a handful are accepted.

Getting a publishing contract means finding an agent and / or pitching your book directly to editors who accept unsolicited manuscript submissions.

Most publishing houses, though not all, prefer to accept submissions through literary agents, who act as the first level screen to identify the most marketable manuscripts.

Few agents these days accept manuscripts that haven't been professionally edited.

For a while I had been asking myself if I should send my manuscripts out to agents and publishing houses accepting unsolicited material, or if I should enter the labyrinth of self - publishing.

Most agents are too busy to accept calls and without your manuscript and query in front of them, there won't be much to talk about.

If the book happened to be chosen and accepted from the slush pile of manuscripts, the author (in reality the agent since old school publishers don't really like to interact with the actual author) was notified, and small check was sent as an «advance» for what the publisher hoped to at least earn out that advance.

A freelance reading position depends on finding a literary agent who still accepts unsolicited manuscripts from new writers and may have a mountain to wade through too find a gem.

Most top - tier publishers donâ $ ™ t accept unsolicited manuscripts, so youâ $ ™ ll need get an agent to convince them to read yours.

These days, unless you have a well - known agent or a large platform and an existing fan base, publishing houses usually will not accept your manuscript.

While Diversion Books does operate on the more traditional publishing model of accepting manuscripts through agent pitching, Diversion also accepts submissions from authors who are well - positioned and have written great books.

Major publishers and their imprints normally do not accept unsolicited manuscripts and an agent can assist with getting your book into the right hands.

Since I have been through the process (fire) of publishing a book, I want to reach out to writers working on a manuscript, and encourage them to push through the writers block, accept the enormous amount of time it will take you to work with an editor to make your manuscript the best it can be, and the gigantic amount of time it will take you to research, submit and wait to hear, if you ever do, from the publishers, small presses, and literary agents who received your submission.

Literary agents do not usually accept manuscripts from an unknown writer, either.

I started writing when large NYC publishers would accept manuscripts directly from writers without literary agents.

However, some traditional book publishers will also accept unsolicited manuscripts meaning that you do not need a literary agent.

Make a list of the agents and research their requirements for accepting manuscripts.

Most publishing houses will not accept a manuscript without a literary agent.

The process of finding an agent can sometimes be tiresome and you might be tempted to get into bed with the first agent that accepts your manuscript.

I would prefer to use a lawyer, and yet most publishing houses won't accept manuscripts except from agents.

You just need to do your homework and find out if the publishers that you want to approach accept manuscripts directly from the author and without the backing of an agent.

For goodness sake — many publishers and agents STILL won't accept emailed or uploaded submissions, opting for snail mail, and even one literary journal, that will go unnamed, wants 3X5 note cards with your name and title to go along with your printed manuscript.

At that point my options were to a) submit to the other big publisher that would accept submissions without an agent (except the wait for a response was 9 - 12 months); b) submit to agents in the hope one of them liked the manuscript enough to then jump through the hoops for publishers, or c) self - publish.

When an author submits a book to an agent or a traditional publisher, editing and proofreading that book is part of the publication process if the manuscript has been accepted.

The major publishers like Simon and Schuster will not accept unsolicited manuscripts so an agent is essential.

Erica Verrillo submitted 22 Cookbook and Nonfiction Publishers Accepting Unagented Manuscripts posted at Publishing... And Other Forms of Insanity, saying, «Here are 22 cookbook publishers welcoming proposals from authors — no agent needed!

Almost no agent or editor accepts full manuscripts on first contact.

Well, my story is that I self - published «Letter to a Prohibitionist» on Amazon because I've come to accept the publishing fact, as demonstrated by numerous works on the subject before mine, that books on the War on Drugs don't sell — and therefore agents don't ask to see the manuscript.

There is the issue of whether or not agents and publishers will accept a manuscript by an author who has self - published, at least if that individual intends on keeping the same name on their work.

In the past, traditional publishers would accept around 2 - 3 % of all the manuscripts sent to them, either unsolicited or via an agent.

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