When you submit your manuscript it will most likely join a heap waiting for someone to sort and sift before it topples over  the socalled slush pile The someone is usually either the editorial department junior ie under 18 or an old hand who comes in a couple of mornings a week and is paid by the hour Neither of these has much influence but they are basically on your side and out to discover something original  the junior to make his or her name and acquire an author of their own if they are lucky the old hand to justify continuing freelance employment