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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
Somebody with more time, patience, acumen and smarts than me should sit down and work out the mathematical formula for your chances of having a book published if you submit it to agents and publishers,
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So in short, unless you're already published (be it self, POD, or PTP) and well known, plus successful, your chances of getting picked up are nearly zero. Kinda like your chances of winning the lottery. Ya know, I wonder if publishers put that disclaimer on their submission process (IE, you have a 1 in 10 million chance of being accepted!) if it would automatically remove all the dead weight.
No, wait. All the dead weight would remain because they wouldn't realize they were just chaff in the wind. Oh well, nevermind.
Of course, if someone could create a system that would pre-filter the really bad manuscripts (I've had to edit plenty myself, so I know the drill), the publishers wouldn't have such a huge slush file either. lol. Of course, that's wishful thinking. heh.