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Q&A Thursday

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Kate McKean
Apr 07, 2022
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Friends! Let’s answer some questions!

C asks: What % of manuscripts don’t get picked up by publishers? For example: if you have 20 authors with 20 manuscripts, probability-wise would they all be picked up by publishers?

You don’t actually want to know this answer. Or, and also, there is no way to know this answer. Penguin Random House posted the other day…

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