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Okay, maybe this is a remedial question, but I guess the issue just fell through the cracks for me.
If a publisher's guidelines say they don't accept unsolicited mss, then you can still send a query. Otherwise, it's okay to submit the entire ms. Essentially, your successful query letter earns you a solicitation?
I assume entries through the two methods go into different stacks, though, right? The unsolicited mss become the slush pile, while the queried works become another pile?
I'm currently trying to sell a non-fiction work, and I understand that NF works with a proposal instead of a query. I have one, but it could use a tune-up before I send it out. Is there anything substantially different about the process with NF other than that?
If a publisher's guidelines say they don't accept unsolicited mss, then you can still send a query. Otherwise, it's okay to submit the entire ms. Essentially, your successful query letter earns you a solicitation?
I assume entries through the two methods go into different stacks, though, right? The unsolicited mss become the slush pile, while the queried works become another pile?
I'm currently trying to sell a non-fiction work, and I understand that NF works with a proposal instead of a query. I have one, but it could use a tune-up before I send it out. Is there anything substantially different about the process with NF other than that?