::bounces::

I passed muster with initial editor, who sent my YA along to her superior. All fingers crossed now that she likes it.

And, you know, reads it sooner than eighteen months from now.

Awesome! I hope the finger crossing bears good results and sooner that 18 months.

I passed muster with initial editor, who sent my YA along to her superior. All fingers crossed now that she likes it.

AAAAAAAYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIII!!!!!

Zombie YA, yes?

Yeah, Barb. Now ... more waiting.

::sits on hands::

Oh, Amy! Eeeee!

Yeah, Barb. Now ... more waiting.

Aw, honey. I'll sit with you and hold your hand (not while you're sitting on them, although I might sneak a grope).

Deep breaths, babe. Deep breaths.

I'm so used to waiting at this point, it's like ... whatever. Just someone decide one way or another!

And I do hate it when someone has it exclusively and keeps it this long. It's just ... rude.

Oh,they've had it exclusively?

Flag on the play, mofo. Not cool.

Yeah.

What's even worse is I really should have just fucking finished it while I was waiting. And I didn't.

The plan was, since their teen line was new, and I have published with Harlequin, we'd send the partial there and see if they wanted it. (Mostly because I can submit a partial there. And initially my agent thought I would need to write the whole book to sell it elsewhere, without a track record in YA.)

I figured, if they don't want it, we'll throw it at everyone else, especially after my agent read it and said it was going to be fine to submit the partial. But this has been since ... April?

Which is not that long in the publishing world, I know, but still.

HQN has had Thirteen, as a full, since... May, I think? But that's a different sitch altogether. I submitted it based on conversation with an editor at last year's National. Lovely Agent has put in a couple of messages to see if they'll get back to her before Armageddon.