The Waiting Game
You’ve gotten your manuscript, cover letter and optional dummy PERFECT, you’ve selected your publishing companies, and mailed off your submissions. Now, you wait.
All your proofing, revising, editing and re-editing, your long hours of researching the publishing companies and getting to know the industry more intimately, all the careful, loving, dedication you’ve poured into your work, and all that’s left is to wait for them to determine the fate of your book. You wait 2, 3, maybe even 6 months, that you actually forget to whom you’ve submitted and when the respective waiting period is over. But when you do remember, the last days of the wait are the toughest.
When the waiting period has come and gone and you’ve heard nothing, sometimes you give them a few extra days, in case their offices flooded, caught fire, or have been vandalized by a giant, enraged ape. Anything that might’ve prevented them from getting to your manuscript. Then the realization hits: they didn’t want your book. What do you do now?
You move on to the next round.
All your proofing, revising, editing and re-editing, your long hours of researching the publishing companies and getting to know the industry more intimately, all the careful, loving, dedication you’ve poured into your work, and all that’s left is to wait for them to determine the fate of your book. You wait 2, 3, maybe even 6 months, that you actually forget to whom you’ve submitted and when the respective waiting period is over. But when you do remember, the last days of the wait are the toughest.
When the waiting period has come and gone and you’ve heard nothing, sometimes you give them a few extra days, in case their offices flooded, caught fire, or have been vandalized by a giant, enraged ape. Anything that might’ve prevented them from getting to your manuscript. Then the realization hits: they didn’t want your book. What do you do now?
You move on to the next round.
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