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I'm amazed the general consensus is that 98% of material sent in is unpublishable. I'd have put the figure more at 99% - 99.5%, but then I'm no expert at that end of things.
I can only speak from personal experience, but in the past when I've submitted work I've generally sent out 15 or so submissions to start with over a couple of months. If they all come back with a form rejection, I've stopped and either taken another look at the text, or slung it in the cupboard and drunk a bottle of Jack Daniels.
If I get rejection that's personalised from an agent with feedback, I'll take the advice on board, make necessary changes and re-submit, along with another 15 or so to other agents over another couple of months. Rinse and repeat.
There was one memorable occasion where an agent from PFD (large UK literary agency) actively encouraged me to send him more work - though ultimately it didn't go anywhere - which I put down to my lack of experience as I was only in my mid-twenties at the time, and not that I had about as much talent as a bucket of pig's liver and he was clinically insane.
I'll liked the dairy metaphor Vintage - by that extension, does it make anything published by Stephenie Meyer stinking cheese?
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