Decisions, Decisions!

Well, you already know that it doesn’t take much to get me to switch directions on projects.  All it took this time was one child who doesn’t like to read to become excited about reading our book to get me to change my focus back to that book.

So, I’m re-proofing the book (again and again), trying to get it ready to submit it to publishers.  I sent it out to one of those electronic submission managers, already.  It irritates me when they limit the amount of text and sample files.  How can I adequately describe our work in the 100-character field?!   GRRRRR!

Anyway, it is what it is; and I just have to do the best I can with what it is.

Now, I’m going back and forth with myself, trying to figure out which is the best strategy.  I only have one chance to make a good first impression — and practice makes perfect.

Following those two natural laws, which publishers do I contact first? 

Do I send to the ones I really want to pick us up or do I start with the secondary list — so I can screw up with the secondaries first without hurting my chances with my first picks?  [Practice makes perfect, remember!]

But if I send to the secondaries and they want the book, I’ve lost my chance with the primaries.  I can always say no to the secondaries, but if I pass up the chance with the secondaries and the primaries don’t want us… then where am I?

And I won’t know any of the outcomes of my decisions for 6-to-12 months out into the future!!!

Yeah!  I’m just a mess!

First things first…. I have to finish proofing the book and then I can obsess about whom to send what… later…


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