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Is anybody aware of publishers who have an open door to un-agented manuscripts?
I realize the trend is towards requiring agency to read (and fobbing much of the screening/editing work off on agents) which I find apalling, frankly. From the viewpoint of writer and agent, of course...but also in the sense that publishers are outsourcing their criteria.
But, my febrile mind comes up with, if EVERYBODY required agents before looking, agents would be able to get 50% commision. I'm getting tired of agents. They block up the process and it's not even their money or say-so. And they are FONTS of mis-information about the market. (As opposed to Hollywood where NOBODY understands the market, but everybody says they do.) The only writers I know who dispense with them are old-timers, grandfathered in, so to speak.
So, how about it. Anybody out there work for or know of publishing houses that don't mind taking their own look?
Thanks
I realize the trend is towards requiring agency to read (and fobbing much of the screening/editing work off on agents) which I find apalling, frankly. From the viewpoint of writer and agent, of course...but also in the sense that publishers are outsourcing their criteria.
But, my febrile mind comes up with, if EVERYBODY required agents before looking, agents would be able to get 50% commision. I'm getting tired of agents. They block up the process and it's not even their money or say-so. And they are FONTS of mis-information about the market. (As opposed to Hollywood where NOBODY understands the market, but everybody says they do.) The only writers I know who dispense with them are old-timers, grandfathered in, so to speak.
So, how about it. Anybody out there work for or know of publishing houses that don't mind taking their own look?
Thanks