Bridging the Expectation Gap

Bridging the Expectation Gap

What assumptions do we make, about how the publishing process works for us?

We find an agent? Great! We assume they will find us a publisher. We then assume that the publisher will sell loads of copies. That is what they do, right? So we sit back, while they work their magic. We let them get on with it, because they are the experts, of course.

That is a bunch of expectations, and there are going to be gaps between what we expect, and what actually happens. Compare...