Lengthening and Resubmitting Novels....

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SeanDSchaffer

I have a question for you all.

I presently have a work that I'm shopping around the industry, that is 57,000 words long. It is a Fantasy.

I'm having trouble getting anyone to represent it, even though people tell me the work seems good. I was thinking this could be due to the short length of the work itself.

So my question:

Would it be considered proper to lengthen the novel and resubmit it to the same people for representation using the new length?

Also, now that I think about it, if it were proper, what would be the proper etiquette to use in the resubmission process?


Thank you all in advance for your answers, and I look forward to your replies.
 
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Take some time off from submissions and work on the book. A good polish and re-write (with some fleshing out) is called for. Unless you're being very modest, the descriptive of "seems good" makes one think it needs tweaking. What you want is to have people calling you in the morning cussing you out because they couldn't put your book down and stayed up all night reading it. :D

Most publishers want 85-100K books. Check the submissions guidelines for your target publishers.

I don't know the protocol for re-submitting stuff, but hang around here and someone will help you on that! ;)
 
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