The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books
submission guidelines say that they only consider «mass market» books, and don't consider books which must be «mail ordered from the publisher.»
When a publisher or agent
submission guidelines say «no unsolicited material,» does that include query letters?
Not exact matches
But he persevered and focused his efforts on developing a research program for
submission the following year that better fit the ERC's
guidelines and philosophy, he
says.
So being am imp, I went to that publisher's website and printed off the
guidelines, which
said in huge letters «No electronic
submissions and absolutely no unagented
submissions.»
Now almost all editors look at
submission packages without agents even though their house
guidelines say otherwise.
The
submission guidelines for Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White now
say: «Due to the volume of
submissions received, replies will be sent only for
submissions being actively considered.»
(Can I just
say: always follow the goddamn
submission guidelines?
Yup, I know that all
guidelines say «Agented
Submissions.»
My personal best — or worse, depending on your point of view — was the query and first three chapters I sent per
guidelines to an agent who
said she'd reopened to
submissions.
Simonetta
says Sony is yet to finalise its plans for the quality assurance process, and was unable to provide answers to how long this phase might take, and how stringent the
guidelines would be for final
submissions.