Submissions Round 2

Today my YA novel goes back on submission for round two. My agent and I spent eight months together on revisions so that I could address some of the notes I was getting from editors who passed on the project. So four drafts later, we’re putting it back out there. This is the last chance the book has to get published in the traditional way. We have a very short list of editors who will still consider the project, so I’m pretty anxious.

One editor agreed to revisit the manuscript if I fixed some of the issues he/she had with it. He/she’s the first person who’s going to get a look at the revised draft. And we suspect he/she’ll get back to us in a couple weeks. If he/she passes, we send the manuscript to our remaining list of editors. Then the wait could be months.

I’m a nervous wreck knowing that I could get an answer one way or the other within a week. I agreed with my therapist that I would only check my emails three times a day. Torture. She wanted it to be once a day, but I negotiated it up to three.

Please cross your fingers for me this week.

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