Last week, I did a thing! I submitted Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! to the wonderful Renaissance, who has been the publisher of my previous novels and the anthologies I’ve co-edited. It was a supremely big deal for me to get to the submission stage because my brain has been greatly affected from …
So, as many of you who follow me already know, I'm in pitch-mode with my first novel, Life in the ’Cosm. I wrote until my Chromebook caught fire, turned a first draft into a beta-reader draft, got comments from readers, and then put myself in self-editing jail for several weeks. Afterwards, I started to send the manuscript …
So, it's been about 15 minutes since I submitted queries and chapters for my first novel, Life in the 'Cosm. OK, it's been just under a month. Now comes the gap when I wait for rejection or acceptance of my writing. Is it just me, or is this waiting thing hard?
Cait Gordon—Speculative Fiction Author 