I forgot the most important thing that comes with a full manuscript. The cover page. The dreaded cover page.

I know a lot more about cover pages now than I did when they were fifteen, but when I think about the first cover page I ever wrote and actually submitted to a publishing agent … peak cringe. It was a cover page that was basically “hi, I don’t know what a cover page is, I don’t have any previous experience”. It was bad. But I’m not too upset about it because I had no idea. So baby writer me gets a pass. Well, in a way I’m still a baby writer, but I definitely know better.

The good news is that I have a proposal I had to write for X and so I have a lot of already done research that I can use to build into my cover letter (if that’s what they’re asking for) but the bad news is that my tutor didn’t like my proposal and so I don’t know if it’ll actually help.

It’s time to comb the literary world and find the best couple of places to see if they’ll take X in.