I tried to email the editor working with my manuscript yesterday. I emailed her because it’s been nearly three months since I heard word on anything, and I say tried because the email bounced back to me. Ruh-O.
So I called the office to see what exactly is going on. Turns out, the editor had left the company and I was talking to her replacement, who just started on Monday. I inquired about the status of my manuscript, and she tells me she doesn’t know. It’s in a box full of manuscripts and it will take time to get to it.
What she is telling me is the repertoire I’d been building with an editor for a year has been erased, and that I need to start over. She may or may not see the same thing the previous editor saw, and like always, I need to wait.
Fucksticks slathered in shit marinade.
This means I will, of course, wait. After all, my manuscript is directly in the hands of a publisher. This is huge. No matter how infuriating. And it is also PENGUIN. You know? As in, “if we pick up your book it will be sold in every bookstore in America” Penguin. So yes, I will wait.
But I’m also tired of playing by the rules. I’ve held off submitting to agents for over a year now because I was working directly with publishers and didn’t want to complicate anything. Now, though, I need to reexamine my options.
i.e. take whatever door opens.
I’m not going to sit around and wait to see what happens with this publisher. If it goes through, then great. If they get mad because I’ve been shopping it around…Too bad. They should have notified me it’s been sitting in a box somewhere in Manhattan.
Motherfucking penguins, man.
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And there you have it.
That's one scary penguin you posted up, too. I feel like he's trying to come through the computer to eat me.
That is frustrating. And that penguin is scary!
Also, I keep thinking of lines from Billy Madison...*smile*
nobody said bringing a book into this world was gonna be easy. just ask the penguin. c'mon, you saw the morgan freeman narrated documentary. is your baby the egg that rolled out into the artic frost after the transfer from daddy penguin to mama penguin was botched? or is your book the impossible miracle that is life that continues to survive hungry sea lions, harsh environment, global warming and the evil penguin lurking who is out to get you?
to be continued...
In a box is not the same as the round file - there is hope. I've got my fingers crossed...
That is the most fearsome penguin I've seen in my life.
Believe me, I watch a lot of Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel.
Oh man, as many of us I really thought it was now just a matter of time, I am sorry to hear these news now. Well that editor surely went to another company, no?