Sooner rather than later, we're all going to have to plug in those novels we've written into a manuscript to send off to our choice of publisher for consideration. After the extensive time you've spent working on getting this book together, it is finally time for the step in this long process of seeing how the professionals are going to react. No, we won't be discussing rejections and acceptances today, but we'll get there. What we'll be focusing on today is the importance of