It’s not just researching and writing.
Yesterday, I received an editor’s response to the last outstanding manuscript submission predating my (ultimately successful) attempt to find an agent.
It was a rejection.
Chris Barton
Award-Winning, Bestselling Author
of Books for Young Readers of all Ages
of Books for Young Readers of all Ages
Hey, I still have a manuscript “out” to an editor (who is also an author, amazingly enough)… and we’re nearing the 3 year mark. Think I’ll hear back?
Hmmm, let me think about tha-
No. No, I don’t.
Say, do you think the submissions process might be a little different for editor-authors (even when the books they right are published by houses other than their own) than it is for the rest of us?
I once made a proposal to an editor-author. She cut my idea off to say, too late. She was writing the same story. I accepted that and moved on. And asked myself years later, why not two stories on the same subject?
Keep plugging away, Chris.
Chris, I hold the world record, I think. An editor returned a manuscript after seven years, and then asked for more! In other news, I attended an Erin Murphy workshop a while back and she had lots of good things to say about you. Greg