I'm Writing a Book and would love to send it to a publishing company, help?

It's clear you are new to this. I can't recall the last time a publisher saw a new author in person. It might have been Isaac Asimov back in the 1930s when he bugged Forrest Ackerman into giving hism his break.

Anyway, you need to finish your manuscript first, then revise it. After that, you pick up a copy of Writers Market and study it. That tells you what publishers want what. Don't go thinking "they'll like this anyway" because they'll shoot it back at you. Don't go thinking "they'll get an editor to fix the punctuation" because they won't. They'll just shoot it back at you. To get published these days, you must act and write like a professional. They don't have time for amateurs because they can find an amateur under every rock.

Make sure your story is edited and revised and the first three pages are gripping. That's how you get published.

You shouldn't be thinking about publishing until you've actually finished the book. And I don't mean when you slap The End on the last page. Finishing a book is when you've written it, edited/revised countless times, received impartial and honest criticism on it, revised again based on said criticism, wash, rinse, repeat. Actually writing the book is the easy part. The hard part is moulding what you've written into a publishable book.

As agilebrit rightly pointed out, no one is interested in a manuscript that you haven't even finished yet. You're getting way ahead of yourself.

If you are serious about getting published then you will most likely need a literary agent first, as most publishers won't even look at manuscripts that haven't been submitted via an agent. Get yourself a copy of the Writers Market and start doing some research into which agents are appropriate for your novel.

If an agent likes your submission they may offer you representation. This means they will work with you to polish your manuscript, then they will pitch it to publishers on your behalf and try to secure the best financial deal. But agencies receive approx. 300 submissions a week and they will only take on one or two new writers a year. If you want your book to stand out among thousands of others, then you need to invest some time making sure it's worth reading.

No publisher is interested in a book you haven't finished yet, unless it's a non-fiction proposal. Full stop. If you're not even done with the first draft, you're not even close to ready to send this to a publisher, or (more likely) begin the agent hunt. Most publishers will not look at an unsolicited manuscript either.

That's just how the business is. They get hundreds of queries a month from people who HAVE finished their novels. They don't need to spend their time on someone who hasn't even stuck an END at the bottom of a first draft yet.

That being said, once you ARE finished, stay away from anyone who wants to charge you a fee for publishing or tries to fool you into "investing in your own book." Money flows TO the writer. Always.