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Most manuscripts submitted to major publishing houses never even make it to an editor.
That's right, for all your hard work in crafting your story, a decision-maker will never even look at it. To lighten their load, many assign editorial assistants to sift through the pile of submitted manuscripts that arrive each day. If a manuscript is not properly formatted, does not contain an appropriate word count or page length or is not professionally presented, it gets slapped with a form rejection letter and is returned to its sender. The editor never even reads the manuscript. That's the bad news.