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Q&A Are submission services worth pursuing?

I have found a company called Writer’s Relief. Their service is to write compelling submission and query letters to genre appropriate agents and publishers. They ask for a synopsis, fifteen pages ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:38:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Rasdashan‭ · 2019-12-08T11:38:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have found a company called Writer’s Relief. Their service is to write compelling submission and query letters to genre appropriate agents and publishers.

They ask for a synopsis, fifteen pages of manuscript and, assuming it is a work they can get behind, they find and query twenty five agents. This service costs about $300. A less expensive service is they will send you a list of agents to query and you write and send the letters.

They tell me that, since inception, they have had over 19 thousand successes. They define success as a request for more pages, a contract with an agent or a publishing deal. They do not break down these as percentages, so further pages could be 85% of it.

Do these services actually work? Are they worth it or should I just google agents and send out fifty queries myself?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-04-04T21:45:53Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 6