Timeline for Do most novels not get published?
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 10:57 | comment | added | naught101 | It would probably be more true to say that the novels that are published are generally toward the top of the heap in terms of quality. There's tonnes that aren't anywhere near the top, and there are probably tens or hundreds of thousands of extremely high quality novels that will never be published. | |
| Mar 7, 2011 at 7:23 | comment | added | jwenting | While quality has something to do with getting something accepted, it's certainly not the only thing and for many a publisher probably not even the main thing. Instead the work has to fit into the "formula" for what that publisher has found sells. The very best novel won't get accepted if it's too different from mainstream simply because the economic risk to a publisher may be too great. A lackluster one by another author who already has a few books to her name may be accepted instead because it's almost certain to at least break even. | |
| Mar 5, 2011 at 19:52 | comment | added | Standback | This is certainly true. The difficulty being, most amateur authors are notoriously poor at figuring out whether or not their novels genuinely suck. | |
| Jan 8, 2011 at 0:57 | comment | added | Ralph Gallagher | The thing with most novels that go unpublished is either the novel genuinely did suck, or the author didn't put enough effort into pursuing publication and gave up after a few rejections. | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 22:53 | history | answered | JSBձոգչ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |