Six submissions in six months

The previous blog post on my plans to submit the haunted cities book got me thinking: How will these plan affect certain other plans I have for the year concerning OTHER manuscripts that I plan to submit? Yes, I do actually plan to submit more than one manuscript this year.

In fact, I have six.

These are six manuscripts that I have either completed and left to sit on my hard drive or they are revisions of previous submissions. Before the year started, I went over which manuscripts I have ready or nearly-ready to go. Or which ones I REALLY want to be done with!

The list ended up containing these manuscripts:

Book 2 in The GHOST Group series
The revised draft of Shadow of Samhain
Wandering Soul (poetry book)
A Ghost on Every Corner (haunted cities)
The first Revisions book
The revised draft of The Ghost of Sarah Travers

Putting this list together helped me to time when I would submit these manuscripts. I grabbed my dayplanner and figured out the dates that would be ideal to submit each one. And it looks pretty good to me; I’ll be sending out 6 different manuscripts to 3 different publishers until June. Last month, I submitted Book 2 in The GHOST Group series (it very likely won’t see publication until next year, as it’s going to need some serious work to get it written in the same style the revised draft of Book 1 will be written in). This month, I’m sending out the poetry book. And next month? Out goes the first book in the Revisions series.

Putting together this list has taken a weight off my shoulders. I’ve been stressing over getting revisions and edits done over a bunch of manuscripts at once, but now with this list, I can space them out and not worry about getting them ready to go RIGHT NOW.

Also, not all of these books will see print this year, but the important thing is that they are Done. Submitted. And just might see print NEXT year. (Some may see print this year, and my charity ebook is indeed slated for publication this year.)This has made me think about what I can expect to see happen NEXT year, and of course I’m all excited about the prospect of these books eventually getting published in the year ahead. (Yay!)

So, there we have it. Six manuscript submissions for the first six months of 2012. Got the first one sent off; pretty soon I’ll be sending out the next one.