Waiting to hear back from publishers and agents makes me feel like a teen girl waiting anxiously by the phone for her crush to call (or text). It's the closest thing I can compare it too.
Since the beginning of the month, when I started this journey, I've sent the manuscript synopsis and, in a couple cases, sample chapters to 5 agents and/or publishers who accept direct submissions. To date, I've gotten two "no thank you" replays. The other two I have yet to hear back from, including my earliest attempt. So I sent a follow up email to said earliest attempt this morning. Hence the waiting anxiously by the phone feeling swirling in my belly (or is it just the ham sandwich I ate for lunch?).
I do want to say one thing. I won't be dropping the names of any agents and/or publishers here in this blog. Not who I send my story to and not who I receive rejections from. That's between me and them. And more respectful, I think. The only exception is if I get a "yes." Then I'll be happy to report I got picked up by X publishing house.
Until then, it's submitting like crazy...and playing the waiting game.
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