What does it take to get published these days?

Being published no longer means anything anyway. Wanting to be published right now is like wanting to have a room full of screaming chimps listen to you, because the room used to be a senate filled with actual humans having real conversations.

Who's going to read your book? The worthless proles who read children's fiction until they're 50? Or the housewives who read self-help? What's your audience?

10,000 followers on Twitter.
Or just shove it on Amazon and let them deal with it.
But also >>9932999 because trips.

I wish you the best of luck but the odds are stacked against you if you want to be noticed, let alone read.

>>9932987
Being a woman/minority

>>9932987
talent

>>9933073
>talent

This.

But submitting your work in professional manuscript format puts you in the top 5% of submissions.

A good title, intriguing first sentence, and a cleanly written first page with no grammatical or spelling mistakes puts you in the top 3% of submissions.

>>9932987
Easy Mode: Be a PoC, a woman (or genderfluid!) and bi.