The final time unto the breach
August 10, 2009
Ok, so my latest, greatest hope that tied up the process for months is now a dead duck. Time to move on to next stage of the plan. It’s time to prepare for the possibility of going with the POD option. I have reached my target of 50 agent submissions. That was always the cut-off point I had in mind before considering the POD route. Some of those submissions still have to reply (if at all), and I actually have about another 15 on my list to submit to. So the strategy now is to submit to those final 15 agents, and while all those are working their way out of the slushpiles, I’ll plough ahead with preparations for a POD book, and initiate my own marketing plan that I’ve been developing for the POD-published option. There’s also a couple of small publishers I hope to pursue in a ‘publishing partner’ capacity first, which would be preferable to a total self-publishing POD option. And maybe, while I’m working away on that, some agent might actually come back with interest … today, I’m ambivalent at best to that possibility.
Feeling out of control of the process is what makes us unhappy.
One good thing about a rejection is that at least now I know I can take control … and be happy again.
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