Unsolicited Manuscript

Unsolicited Manuscript

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Daniel Puzzo
Oct 6, 2025

I always appreciate these query posts - is it hard to compile them? (if it's a secret, no worries!)

I will hopefully be starting to send off query letters and all the other stuff, but the revisions are a slow, arduous process.

I've seen other newsletter writers mention bypassing agents altogether and submitting directly to smaller presses that are open to submissions - what are your thoughts on that?

One more question if I may - I'm up to chapter 13 with my serialisation (out of 36+) and I've put it on hold for the past two weeks (I doubt any readers have even noticed or care, haha!) because of all the revisions. I knew this was a risk going in, but it looks like its needs a lot more revising, earlier chapters too, which means continuing with the serialising is going to be a mess - I'm not going back to edit earlier chapters on Substack, only on my draft. I wonder too about the wisdom of continuing to serialise if I'm going to try submitting it.

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