/lit/ - Literature

I finished my novel manuscript. What the fuck am I supposed to do now? I don't want to self publish how the fuck do I get an agent or approach a traditional publisher?

>>12602789
The entire cycle is supposed to be mostly self contained. Each turning point is a self contained story that only shares a few characters between time-adjacent ones, a few family lineages that stay relevant throughout the ages, and the historian.

I more mean it to be 8 story lines that culminate in the final conflict.

Maybe that would be ok? I don't know. Maybe I'm an idiot. Fuck.

>>12542292
Working Title is The Mouths & The Voices. I didn't mention one of my protagonists. A bird boy drug supplier who gets his orchard repossessed by big government so he sells half his slaves and forces the other half into service as he heads off to war.

Basically the entire story focuses on the invention of chemical warfare and a conflict similar to the opium wars, but on a larger scale. Both the drug and the neurotoxin used in the chemical warfare are derived from the same plant (from the flesh of the fruit and the seed of the fruit respectively).