But, Ian, there's a difference between hiding a manuscript from
everybody and sending the entire thing to someone you don't know at all. I would never recommend the former. In fact, I did recommend joining a writers group.
Kissmequick, it sounds to me like you already know what you want to do, you just want reassurance that you are doing the right thing. But you are the one with all of the information, and everything to gain or lose.
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I know of a couple of authors who were published as a result of others reading their unpublished novels. Those readers created a buzz... which eventually reached the ears of an editor.
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This actually happened to me with one of my books, because a writer friend who had seen my partial a few years before was working (briefly) as an editorial assistant at Avon. But I wouldn't use that as an example of why it's a good idea to show your work to strangers; she was someone I had known for years.