Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
That quote from Thomas Edison greets me and about 100 other writers every time we connect with each other in an online group for authors with agents who are pitching our debut novels to publishers. Some of us have been in the group for weeks, while others have remained for months or even years.
But every single author is stuck in that agonizing transition between writing and publishing we all experience. Each day that goes by without an update from our agent we feel like giving up, wondering if our words are worth anything to the publishers they’re pitching. And yet each day we could get “the call” from
