Waiting
Howdy from Texas.
I was born and raised in the Lone Star State and my mom and sister still live here. So, I get to come back and visit often. This trip is the first one in a long time that is just for fun and I am determined to relax and not stress. Why would I be stressing, you ask? I'm in the waiting phase. Sitting in the green room waiting to hear if a story is up to par, worth a second or even a third glance. This is a game we often play in the creative field and I came across a few links that deal with it well.
Roz talks about waiting for the next job and Robin and Eve at the disco mermaids write about the torture of waiting for that first glorious and elusive phone call.
Good luck to all of us in the holding phase, now I'm gonna go play.
2 Comments:
Good luck Courtney!
I heard sometimes it's okay to submit to several publishers at the same time, as long as we clearly state that we do so. Unless you want to give one publisher exclusivity for a while. Does anyone know more on that?
Astrid
PotatoMammaDesign.com
It's gettting more frowned upon in the US. The best way is as you said Astrid, In your cover letter, mention you are giving them 6-8 weeks exclusivity. Keep a record and if you don't hear back by the 8 weeks, then you go ahead and send to the next publisher on the list and do the same thing. BTW: Always send samples to editors as well as art directors and vice versa with dummies/manuscripts. You just never know!
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