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Do not try to query with an unfinished manuscript. Dear Query Shark, I have an incomplete fantasy novel here's where I stop reading and send a form rejection letter -- Janet Reid, h...
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2019-12-12T20:06:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T05:08:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Do not try to query with an unfinished manuscript. > Dear Query Shark, > > I have an incomplete fantasy novel > > _here's where I stop reading and send a form rejection letter_ -- Janet Reid, [http://queryshark.blogspot.co.il/2009/09/134.html](http://queryshark.blogspot.co.il/2009/09/134.html) Google will find you this advice over and over: an unpublished author should not query an unfinished novel. e.g. [1](http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?57672-Any-agents-who-accept-unfinished-manuscripts) [2](http://www.gracebooks.org/book-publishing/query-unfinished-manuscript/) [3](http://www.rachellegardner.com/should-you-write-the-whole-book/) [4](https://litreactor.com/columns/ask-the-agent-a-review-of-when-to-query-agents) An agent or published have no reason to take any risk or spend any effort on a writer who has not yet completed one book. It costs them time, and puts them at risk of you not finishing the book, or finishing the book poorly. Finish the book. Edit the book. Polish the book. Get the book as perfect as you can, so the moment someone says "OK, let's take a look," they'll have nothing but a marvelous read ahead of them. _Then_ you can start querying.
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2016-03-16T22:18:04Z (over 8 years ago)
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