"What happens when we're ready to hit send?"

Talking you through the publisher submission process as if you were my client, which some but not all of you are!

At some point early in the process of working together, I get the same question from nearly all of my clients: “what happens when the proposal is ready to go?”

Clients want to know how many editors I’ll send the proposal to and where; how fast they should expect replies; whether and how I think we’ll get nibbles; and—every agent’s favorite—how much mone…