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While this advice is true in the case of major publishers such as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, Haper and all their subsidiaries - you simply do not need to find a literary agent to find a publisher.
There are many independent publishers with great reputations out there, such as Salt, Blue Moose, Penned in the Margins, Seren, Nine Leaves. ON top of this some major publishers have open submission windows - Jonathan Cape had one this year for the whole month of June. They will read everything that comes in during that month.
Given the fact that Eimear McBride's Girl is a Half Formed Thing, which won the most prestigious award for women's fiction in the world (Bailey's Prize) was published by a very small independent, Galley Beggar, who accept open submissions, it's a shame that this side of the industry has been over looked in this piece.

KitCaless , Editor , 19/08/14 , 421 AP

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Like you said, though, "this is advice is true in the case of major publishers" - getting a book published without a literary agent is the exception rather than the rule. I've also worked with a few independent publishers and it's the same thing - but good to know about the independent publishers you mentioned DO read cold submissions.

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While this advice is true in the case of major publishers such as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, Haper and all their subsidiaries - you simply do not need to find a literary agent to find a publisher.
There are many independent publishers with great reputations out there, such as Salt, Blue Moose, Penned in the Margins, Seren, Nine Leaves. ON top of this some major publishers have open submission windows - Jonathan Cape had one this year for the whole month of June. They will read everything that comes in during that month.
Given the fact that Eimear McBride's Girl is a Half Formed Thing, which won the most prestigious award for women's fiction in the world (Bailey's Prize) was published by a very small independent, Galley Beggar, who accept open submissions, it's a shame that this side of the industry has been over looked in this piece.

KitCaless , Editor , 19/08/14 , 421 AP
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687af2d2-f4d6-4569-8b12-a38c00bfe900
- Like you said, though, "this is advice is true in the case of major publishers" - getting a book published without a literary agent is the exception rather than the rule. I've also worked with a few independent publishers and it's the same thing - but good to know about the independent publishers you mentioned DO read cold submissions.
  
  jessicajlp , Writer , 19/08/14 , 156 AP
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