ARC due any day

There is just no way to get around this waiting thing when it comes to publishing. First you have to wait for an agent to get back to you. Then you have to wait for your agent to do his or her job, which means more waiting. If you forego the agent and submit to publishers on your own, then you still have to wait for your submissions to get answered. Sometimes that takes a very long time.

And then when you finally land a publisher, there is still more waiting. You have to wait on the editor, and then wait on the editor again. Then you have to wait on the final wait of all the waits. The ARC. And that final wait is the wait on which I'm waiting.

It kind of sounds funny by this time. But once that last wait is done, I should see my book in print. But first I have to proof that ARC, and that's the wait that's killing me now. It should be here any day now. Maybe today. Nancy, the owner of Melange puts out a lot of books. About six to twelve a month it seems. Some publishers put out that many in an entire year. So going by that, she publishes a lot of books. Which means she's a very busy lady. She must be preparing a lot of ARCs.

So I can understand. I'm only one author. There's at least a half dozen other authors waiting for their ARCs right now, too. But keeping that in mind only makes it understandable, not easier. So who said the business of publishing was easy or fast? Well, self publishers can say it, I suppose. But I say that self publishing, with a few exceptions, is for those writers who can't find a publisher. Anyone can self-publish. Anyone. Even the worst writers in the world.

I don't and never wanted that stigma over my head. So it's back to waiting then. And that's what I'm doing. Tick, tick, tick...