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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "someone" you show should be a critique partner. What type of book is it? There may be a writing group you can connect with for free feedback (ideally someone who you click with and you could also provide critique for them).

You could also look for a paid editor to review it, but I'd suggest finding a critique partner or group first. You'll learn a lot from it--just as much from critiquing others as you do from the critiques you'll get.[/quote]

Published novelist here. No offense, but this is a waste of your time. Your critique partner has no idea what is selling today, what is hot, what is not, what agents are looking for etc.

Hire an editor. Almost every writer I know who has gotten a book deal in the past five years has done this. Myself included. It's a dirty little secret that no one likes to talk about or admit to.

My editor was a former acquisitions editor at a major publishing house IN MY GENRE.  There is simply no way your critique partner's input will be any where close to as valuable as a seasoned editor's.

I wish it weren't like this, but it is.

Also, the PP who said query letters don't matter is in a tiny minority. For most agents, they matter -- a lot.

Traditional publishing is brutally competitive -- and is even more brutal today than it was when I started only six years ago!

The podcast a PP mentioned is a great place to start.[/quote]

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