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On Submission #1
Ewkaaaaay.
Apparently my agent sent Selfie to a (big) publisher who requested an exclusive read.
…Without editing.
Not sure what to think about that. I’ve never had a manuscript on submission before, unless you count the lies of my previous lying-ass agent; an agent so ethical that her agency started selling editing services to queriers to keep the lights on. (For you non-writers, this is the equivalent of being asked to send a green dot money card to a Lithuanian post office box before buying a car off Craigslist.)
There’s a school of thought that says, “Hey, THANK YOU critique group people and beta readers! You all did such a great job of catching typos and grammar slips that my manuscript must have been nearly perfect!”
And then there’s a school of thought that says, “What the flyin’ flippity FLOO??? Isn’t there more to an edit than typos?”
And then there’s my agent’s likely school of thought: “Janice, just put the bloody thing in the post and shut this insufferable wanker up about his submissions, already!”
At any rate, it has begun. (I think.) (I hope.)
Wish me luck.
6 comments
Patti Goldberg
Sooooo happy for you!!! This is awesome!!! Good luck!!!
Shawn
Thanks, P.
Dane Tyler
I will say a prayer for you (that’s my way of “wishing you luck”), because you want this so bad, but…I maintain you’d be happier and would find your readership just fine all on your own. I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
Shawn
I know. But the contract is signed. That particular novel is not mine to do with as I please anymore.
I wanted this. I wanted this. I wanted this.
Right?
Angela
‘Bout time she did it for you…..
Shawn
Yeah. But at this point-in-time, I’m her least profitable client. So I get what I’ve paid her for so far. Which is to say: nothing.
As long as I’m somewhere on her radar, that’s all I ask.