Comments on: Continuing a tradition… http://reesabrown.com/2008/03/07/continuing-a-tradition/ The homepage of Reesa Brown Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:52:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Reesa http://reesabrown.com/2008/03/07/continuing-a-tradition/#comment-47 Reesa Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:43:11 +0000 http://reesabrown.com/2008/03/07/continuing-a-tradition/#comment-47 Sorry it's early in the morning for my brain, there definitely should have been an over in there to start and I added a + as well. Though I think I've probably met a few more who were on the shorter end of the waiting game spectrum, which might skew my perceptions of the process a bit. What do you think is a more accurate projection? Sorry it’s early in the morning for my brain, there definitely should have been an over in there to start and I added a + as well. Though I think I’ve probably met a few more who were on the shorter end of the waiting game spectrum, which might skew my perceptions of the process a bit. What do you think is a more accurate projection?

]]> By: Mris http://reesabrown.com/2008/03/07/continuing-a-tradition/#comment-46 Mris Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:37:11 +0000 http://reesabrown.com/2008/03/07/continuing-a-tradition/#comment-46 Where'd you get the two year average? Is that two years after an agent agrees to represent it? Because otherwise I am boggled that there are people who have responses from more than one publisher within two years without an agent, and I can't really think that the average novel sells to the first publisher who sees it. Also, what data gets factored into that? Only first novels that eventually do sell? Does that count first published novels that are not first submitted novels? It could be that I know all the backwards children in SF and fantasy, all the ones who have editors ignoring them for ages and very few of the ones whose novels get read within a few months of submission. I doubt it, though. Where’d you get the two year average? Is that two years after an agent agrees to represent it? Because otherwise I am boggled that there are people who have responses from more than one publisher within two years without an agent, and I can’t really think that the average novel sells to the first publisher who sees it. Also, what data gets factored into that? Only first novels that eventually do sell? Does that count first published novels that are not first submitted novels?

It could be that I know all the backwards children in SF and fantasy, all the ones who have editors ignoring them for ages and very few of the ones whose novels get read within a few months of submission. I doubt it, though.

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