A publisher asks to see your full manuscript. You read it three more times, trying to eradicate all typos, missing words, unclear passages, and confusing lines. You attach it to a politely professional email, which you hope disguises what you’re experiencing in equal measure: hope, fear, and anxiety.
You hit send.
And then you wait.
Waiting may be as much or more exhausting than the writing itself, but it is a fact of life in book publishing.
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