Last week ArtsHub listed some misconceptions about authors – false beliefs often held by newbies or from those outside book publishing. So this time, here is the opposite corollary: facts about being a writer that those who made it into print for the first time were either shocked or pleasantly surprised by…
Many debut authors who’ve had a book published by an external agency (not self-published) are astonished at how long the entire process takes, and indeed it can be a few years before a loose-bound manuscript is transformed into an actual physical book-shape entity that’s ready to be displayed on shelves. There’s a lot to do after all, including contract negotiation, editing, proofreading and cover design. And remember the publisher is juggling various books simultaneously, so your book is just one of many that are being fed into the publishing machine.
