A publisher asks to see your full manuscript. You read it three more times, trying to eradicate all typos, missing words, unclear passages, and confusing lines. You attach it to a politely professional email, which you hope disguises what you’re experiencing in equal measure: hope, fear, and anxiety.
You hit send.
And then you wait.
Waiting may be as much or more exhausting than the writing itself, but it is a fact of life in book publishing.
To continue reading, please see my post today at the ACFW Blog.
Photograph by David Taffett via Unsplash. Used with permission.
Some Wednesday Readings
Samuel Pepys at St Olave’s – Spitalfields Life.
Meaning in Mystery: Why Noir Speaks in a Morally Ambiguous World – Adam Hill at Miller’s Book Review.
Mississippi Heat: Stops along the Vicksburg Campaign – Nathan Provost at Emerging Civil War.
“The Rejected Member’s Wife,” poem by Thomas Hardy – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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