Submission Day

I’ve submitted my latest book to four agents. I now can’t do anything with it for between 4 and 12 weeks. I need to distract myself by working on my next book and not worrying that I’ve misspelled something on the 15th page, but I’m supposed to be being vaccinated in an hour. I haven’t had a lot of anxiety recently, thanks to something I’m not currently allowed to talk publically about, but today is made for anxiety. Was my agent letter too long? Are there errors in the manuscript my three rounds of checks didn’t catch? Was my opening snappy enough? I need to not worry about this stuff because there’s only so much I can check and check and check before I have to trust that I’ve made everything about as right as is possible.

Now, the waiting begins.