In Publishing, patience is not just a virtue, it’s good business.
Image by Saritza Hernandez (c) 2015 In publishing, the hurry-up-and-wait method of getting to publication can be frustrating and defeatist to a new author or to a new agent advocating for her clients who have little to no patience. As an author, you’re racing to the finish line of this manuscript decathlon you’ve poured your heart and soul into then rush your beta readers and critique partners to provide you with the feedback needed to make this book even better. You rush to make a list of editors and agents to query then… you wait. You sit on your hands itching to check in with those publishing individuals whose emails you reached out to just the day before wishing and hoping they’ll respond with that coveted offer of publication or representation you’ve been dying to receive since you began your authorial career six months prior. It doesn’t work that way. It can’t work that way. It shouldn’t work that way. Image by Saritza Hernandez (c) 2015 My grandmother used to s