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From the point of view of a publisher's agent (from talking to a friend who was one), they tend to specialise in one particular area, because they work by networking and that helps. Because life is a lottery as far as writers are concerned, they bombard as many publishers as they can find with their sample chapters. And so publishers are fed up asking for specific material and getting submissions irrelevant to what they asked for. Hence the high reject rate. They also have to publish only works that they think will sell, which means unsellable work that's otherwise good will also get rejected.

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: Re: Will the publisher/agent tell me what to write? I recently read this answer, which suggested that an author's first novel will be rejected, and the publisher will instead get the author to write

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: Example screenplays on the web Wondering if there are any good "open source" screenplays available on the web, ones that provide a good introduction to screenplays and have lots of "features"

: Are separate acknowledgements sections for co-authors odd? I'm writing a book with a co-author, and we disagree on who to thank. So, we're thinking of each writing our own short acknowledgements

: Can the Final Draft 11 software handle foreign screenplay formats? I am considering buying Final Draft 11. Of special interest to me is that this version can handle 95 foreign languages, including

: Peaks are defined by the space in between People, as a general rule, are much better at comparing things than they are at measuring absolutes. That's why we don't measure pain in kilo-ouches,

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