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"New authors almost always submit their work prematurely," says Mark McCutcheon, author of Damn! Why Didn't I Write That.
"(It is) usually one revision or more short of what would be considered professional. The material that arrives in an agent's mail every day can be broken down roughly as follows:

87 percent amateurish and unpublishable.

3 percent material that targets the market well, but is too poorly
written or researched to be fixed.

4 percent pretty good material with virtually no market.

4 percent pretty good material with a saturated market.

1 percent material with good potential if the work is revised and polished.

1 percent material with excellent potential that is ready for submission."

            What this means is that an author has a 99 percent chance of being published if he or she knows how to produce professionally written material and has a good idea of the market for which their book is targeted.

            We can help. Let us take a look at your manuscript before you send it. We'll let you know how well you did and whether your work is in the 2 percent wanted and needed by publishers and agents.

            Remember, well written material gets published.

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