Read their submission requirements and stick to them rigidly — remember they receive hundreds if
not thousands of manuscripts a week and are just delighted when a misspelt word or incomplete submission gives them an excuse to toss it aside and reduce their slush pile.
Right
now thousands of manuscripts sit as a slush pile in the corner of a dusty publisher's office because they simply aren't publishing manuscripts from unknown authors, instead they bank on those long time tried and proven authors that are without risk.
The Vatican Apostolic Library is aiming to
make thousands of its manuscripts available online, and has announced that it is working with the Japanese company NTT Data to digitise some 3000 manuscripts over the next four years.
Since TED, I've moved to New York and landed at Wolf Literary Services, a literary agency that has me
reading thousands of manuscripts, interacting with countless authors, and shepherding writers through all stages of their writing careers.
Of
the thousands of manuscript variants we have, I have not yet seen one that would be to the detriment of the message.
Everyone takes those as gosphel, but
thousands of manuscripts of the books of the Bible are not enough and never will be.
Thousands of manuscripts are submitted to agents and publishers every year; only a handful are accepted.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pope's weekly addresses, and
thousands of manuscripts are now available to read.
by Lisa Dale Norton June, 2015 I've read
thousands of manuscripts and worked with hundreds of writers over dozens... View Article
It's the publishers who bear the cost of paying people to read
the thousands of manuscripts submitted each year.