Assuming you are submitting directly to a publishing house without an agent here are some useful guidelines to consider. 
- If you don’t here back from them, they don’t want it.
- Just in case though, check the house website, they usually list the time frame you can expect a response and what it means if you don’t hear back, ie they are running behind or it’s a no.
- Follow the guidelines carefully for the big items like Genre, length, exclusions. But if you need 1 1/4 pages for synopsis and it says one page, go ahead and use the extra 1/4.
- Do your homework. Publishers are not robotic rejection machines. They are humans and will get offended too.
- Sending something in for consideration below the minimum word count threshold is a deal breaker, for one editor on the panel.
-Why Editors Pass Panel
T.A. Henry 
You always have such great advice! Thanks for sharing!
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Just what I hear from people with more experience than me.
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That’s reassuring! One publisher I sent a query to asked to see the first 15 pages, but I knew this one funny bit that had to get in didn’t appear until page 16~ so i sent them the first 16 pages. (It worked, they asked to see more.)
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Great advice! Especially about following the guidelines. It’s hard enough to get publishers to take you seriously without an agent without making their point for them by failing to follow a simple instruction!
Debbie
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