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I know as a writer that the waiting can be hell, but at the moment it's getting silly....
I'm waiting for:
- a response from a TV company on a pitch for episodes of a new UK Twilight Zone type series
- a response from an agent who asked for the complete manuscript of a crime novel
- a response from a different agent who asked to read one of my books with a view to representing me in future
- a response from a Hollywood Production company who are reading a feature script of mine
- a response from a Hollywood agent who asked to see a batch of my short stories with a view to possibly optioning some of them
- a response from a UK publisher on my pitch for a Judge Dredd novel
- a response from a film-maker who's reviewing three short scripts of mine
- responses from three anthologies that I've submitted short stories to
- any news from my Russian and Chinese agents trying to sell my novels in those markets
Plus, on the "already sold and waiting" front I've got a novel coming next spring (so they say), another towards the end of next year, and a hardcover omnibus edition of a trilogy at some point. Oh, and there's a German edition of one of my books coming "sometime"
The only thing I can do is keep writing to avoid going mad, but all this means is that I end up with -another- backlog of submissions further down the line. I think I must be writing too much
But I don't want to slow down, for fear that it all dries up and goes away completely.
waiting is -HELL-
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Vent: The Waiting Game
