The Backlist

One of the hardest things to do once you have a  publisher, is creating a back list. At least, if you're like me and you have tons of manuscripts ready to edit and sub to your editor, you'd think it would be one, two, three, yay!

But, oh, is that so not the case.

Mainly because my attention is pulled in eight different directions a day besides on the WIP I'm currently working on at that moment. I tend to be working on two or three projects in various stages of completion, just because that's how I work. But couple that with edits from my actual editor and all that other good stuff?

Oh boy.

Here's the main reason why a back list to me in the holy grail: because my editing phases are long and tedious. Even before an MS gets sent to my editor I've gone over it and rewritten it at least three times--and that's just the first rough draft. I am not a "write a perfect draft first time, every time" person. I'm not even a "have a perfect draft after three rewrites" person. I'm a polisher. A nutty, eccentric, epic polisher. So for every single book in my back list, it probably spent a lot of time with me before going to my editor for more edits, and then hitting the interwebs. While I'm also editing, promoing, and writing other things.

So yeah, that back list. It'll happen, slowly but surely. But I'm not holding my breath. Might pass out before I finish polishing.