I remember a mass-market edition of Rafael Sabatini's "Scaramouche" that had two misspellngs in the first sentence!
You did not say whether your novel is Furry or not. Furry fiction is notoriously almost impossible to sell to mainstream publishers, no matter how good it is. Ask Paul Kidd how many publishers he sent his novels to before he gave up and either self-published or essentially gave them to Furry publishers just to get them into print.
I remember a mass-market edition of Rafael Sabatini's "Scaramouche" that had two misspellngs in the first sentence!
You did not say whether your novel is Furry or not. Furry fiction is notoriously almost impossible to sell to mainstream publishers, no matter how good it is. Ask Paul Kidd how many publishers he sent his novels to before he gave up and either self-published or essentially gave them to Furry publishers just to get them into print.
Fred Patten