10 Things To Do While Waiting For Your Book To Be Published

[image error] Looking for something to do while waiting for your book to be published? Try some of these!

1. Start writing your next book.

2. Read other books in your genre and get friendly with authors on Facebook and Twitter. Don’t forget to give reviews when you read those books!

3. Take a break from novel writing for a little bit and pen a short story in a genre you never write in – for me, that would be literary fiction.

4. Take a weekend with your significant other and spend it on the beach, or in a cabin, or on a lake, or in downtown Manhattan. No writing, no TV. Reading is okay!

5.  Do some Christmas or Hanukkah shopping. It’s never too early for that!

6. Offer to teach a writing class at your library.

7. Make a list of people you need to thank when you do the acknowledgements for your book.

8. Post character interviews, so people will want to grab your book the second it comes out, just to find out more.

9. Host other writers on your blog.

10. Connect with bloggers and writers who will want to host you when your book comes out.

I’d love to hear some of your ideas on how you keep busy between books!