Received a feature request this morning for a feature that already exists on the site. That’s usually a good indicator that I should create a quick tutorial, in case there’s anyone else who hasn’t discovered that the feature exists, but would use it if they knew about it.

In this case, the inquiry was:

I think your service is popular among some people doing genre submissions who send material to a list of magazines, sending it to the next one immediately upon rejection.

The ideal thing would be

Where hasn’t this MS been?

To find out which of your markets haven’t seen a particular manuscript yet, it takes three quick steps:

  1. Click “Search Markets” in the left sidebar.
  2. Select your manuscript from the “Untested for manuscript:” menu.
  3. Click the “Search My Markets” button at the bottom of the search form.

Search for Untested Markets

Optionally, you can specify additional parameters in your search. For example, find only markets tagged “horror” and “tier1″ that haven’t seen the manuscript yet. Or only markets that accept electronic submissions greater than 10,000 words long. Or only contests whose deadlines are less than a month away.