KILLER OF KILLERS is getting published next month. THE VASE will get published too, but not next month. I can't believe it's taking this long for THE VASE to land a publisher. It had received three offers in my first round of submissions. That actually carried over into another offer. And then the second round of submissions resulted in three requests for fulls.
But that was five months ago. Okay, so you never know how long it will take. The one day submission to Melange that landed the contract for KILLER OF KILLERS must have been the exception to the rule of how slow the process really is.
I don't know how much longer I will wait until I submit THE VASE to Melange, also. We'll see. I'm still perfecting it. Even today I made the prose better in a lot of places. I guess that's what I'll keep doing. I hate it when I submit something and then decide that it could have been written better, even in one little place.
That happened when I sent my final draft of KILLER OF KILLERS to the publisher. I found one little spot that could have been better. I'm hoping to correct if when I get the ARC. So don't ever get complacent. Not when it comes to writing a novel.
Like I've said with art and music: a drawing, a painting, a song or a lyric can be a finished work at some point. But a novel? Only when it's in print. And that means when it's published. And that is the biggest difference between a novelist and a composer, artist, lyricist, etc.
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