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Submission guide

What a submission package has to contain.

Agents and editors read hundreds of packages a month. Most of what gets a manuscript set aside happens before the first line of prose is reached.

A submission package is a reading test with three parts. The query letter proves you can summarise; the synopsis proves the structure holds; the pages prove the voice is real. Any one of them can stop the other two from being read.

Work through the list below in order. It is deliberately dull — the boring items are the ones that cost authors a reading.

The manuscript

The query letter

The synopsis

Sending it

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