How Long Does it Take for a Manuscript to Find a Home?

Posted: November 20, 2012 2:25 PM

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Sometimes, I think, we are under the magical assumption that a writer has an idea, writes a story, then an editor at a publishing house acquires it, and it is published. Four clean, clear steps in a straight forward-moving line.

Sigh. Maybe I should revise that we to an I.

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