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Well, if this is your first-ever novel, then it likely will suck. Most of us can attest to this from our our own first offerings. So how to deal?
Good luck.
I really hate this attitude towards novels. There's no more reason for a first novel to suck than for a tenth novel to suck. The choice of telling the kind of story publishers want is more likely to be off, but not the quality.
A first novel may well be unpublishable because of story choice, because the writer doesn't understand exactly what publisher, and readers, look for in a story, but my experience is that if novel one really does suck where ability to write and tell a basic story is concerned, so will novel two, novel three, and novel twelve.
Writers need to treat novel one like it is not going to suck, like it doesn't suck, like it's worth as much as any novel, anywhere.