Forget the Finish Line, Enjoy the Publishing Process

by Robert Lee Brewer (@robertleebrewer)

After editing Writer’s Market for more than a decade, I have a pretty good idea of how publishing works on a cerebral level. But I learned it on a more intimate level while going through the process of publishing my first full-length poetry collection, Solving the World’s Problems, this year with Press 53.

The main takeaway is there’s no such thing as a finish line.

Manuscript Accepted Means I’m Done, Right?

When Tom Lombardo of Press 53 accepted my manuscr...