More than two years had passed, and they get a great many unsolicited manuscripts.
Because many literary agencies won't read unsolicited manuscripts, acquiring an agent may be a key to publication.
Most agents and the major publishing houses do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
In 1984, an unsolicited manuscript arrived at the company's new office in Boston.
As of 2011, it was receiving 150 to 200 unsolicited manuscripts a month and accepts 12 to 16 per issue.
We're one of the few theaters that still accepts unsolicited manuscripts.
However, at some book publishers, unsolicited manuscripts are not read at all!
"We get over three thousand unsolicited manuscripts a year," one of the agents had said.
"We have always had a policy that we don't read unsolicited manuscripts," he added.
I've never seen an unsolicited manuscript that looked like any more than the work of a bright fifth-grader.