You're so right about the benefits of small presses, and you can include some bigger presses that
take unagented submissions.
Yes, many of the smaller publishers
take unagented submissions, but then we're on our own as far as contract issues.
I don't think that publishers who
take unagented submissions affect my job at all.
Right, few publishers do
take unagented submissions.
Harlequin already
took unagented submissions for a bunch of its lines.
Not exact matches
While still
taking submissions of manuscripts — often
unagented submissions, which has been attractive to authors who've been rejected by the first level of gatekeeper to the industry — the numbers of rejected manuscripts from these new publishers are surprisingly low.