Take it from one whose job was to sift through unsolicited manuscripts: there’s a reason that many publishers don’t accept unsolicited manuscripts. “By the time I left my job in publishing a few weeks ago, my idealism was in tatters, destroyed by the piles of typescripts I received from people who told me that their fondest desire was to write full time while sitting in a villa overlooking the Mediteranian, despite the fact that they didn’t know how to spell it.”