This is my third day of intense submissions of my first manuscript Devil’s Gut. Using my Writer’s Digest online site, I created a number of searches for agents or publishers who welcome unrepresented and unpublished writers. The result produced a 26 page list of potential ‘customers’, although some candidates were contests. The most confusing aspect of this process has been the rather confusing array of types of fiction some agents or publishers list as ‘of interest.’
I understand the distinction between literary and commercial. However, there are many agents and publishers who list literary, mystery, historical, women’s issues, but no genre! So, what are mystery and historical?
It comes as no surprise, really, that I must look at what they have published to see what they really mean by these contradictory lists. It’s simply another level of diligent research for publication.
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