Not necessarily. If you know people, they would be willing to agent your work to represent it to larger publishing companies that only take agented work. Then y

Not necessarily. If you know people, they would be willing to agent your work to represent it to larger publishing companies that only take agented work. Then you have a much higher chance of being accepted before you write another novel and then it's simply a matter of giving your latest manuscript to your editor and seeing what they say.