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submission
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a query letter", "query", "querying", "pitch", "blurb", "back cover copy", "jacket copy", "comp titles", "comparable titles", "synopsis for agents", "submit to agents", "submission tracker", "self-publishing description", "retailer description", "ready to query", "submission readiness check", "submit a short story", "magazine submission", "short-fiction markets", "simultaneous submission", "reprint rights", "order a short story collection", or wants to prepare and track a finished manuscript's submission to agents, publishers, magazines, anthologies, or retailers. NOT for pitching a series of several books (use series-continuity), or self-publishing production, metadata, or book rights deals (use publishing). The blurb, retailer description, and the rights a short-fiction market buys, such as reprint rights, stay here.
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# Submission
## Overview
Get a finished manuscript out the door. This skill checks submission
readiness, drafts the submission package (query letter, pitch, synopsis,
blurb, comp titles), builds the manuscript in submission format, and keeps a
tracker of where the book has gone. Package files live under `submission/`
in the story project. The author sends every submission themselves; this
skill prepares materials and records outcomes.
## Prerequisites
A story project with a complete or near-complete draft. Verify `story.md`