Q&A Thursday

Run Your Own Race edition

Q&A Thursday
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My friends,

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D asks: Here's a question (probably best filed under: be patient, grasshopper) but... how long before a manuscript is considered "dead on sub"? First novel is out on sub now and weirdly, it hasn't been acquired by a zillion celeb reading groups or optioned by Meryl Witherspoon Kidman and etc etc. Thus am in the slough of despair. Which is apparently where we writers spend a great deal of time.

Think of being on submission like being at the starting line of a marathon. You're