[CarrieF Posts: 201 Status: Offline WWW]

I just sent out my first pb manuscript yesterday (yay!). Of course I'm WAY too distracted to work on anything today...but I'm hoping that soon I can get back to another project I was working on. That one is close to being ready, and I'm sure it will be ready long before I hear back about the first thing -- if I even hear back which is sounding doubtful from everything I've read on these boards!

Anyway, wondering how many manuscripts other people have "going" at once? And when you send out a second thing, do you mention that you have other work submitted elsewhere?

Thanks!

Carrie

[AuntyBooks Posts: 548 Status: Offline AKA Kersten Hamilton WWW]

Congratulations on your first sub! You are on your way!

I have about 8 pb out right now, and six more that could go out if I found the right market. No, I do not mention that I have submitted elsewhere -- until I get an offer. Picture books sometimes have a long journey ahead of them. I know of one writer who sold a picture book twenty years after she wrote it. I have sold one after ten years of trying and waiting and watching for the right place/editor to happen.

Focus on the art of writing, and keep going!

eab 

[JulieM Posts: 967 Status: Offline WWW]

I have three out there.

[write2inspire Posts: 201 Status: Offline WWW]

I have a non-fiction PB manuscript with an outline for five more non-fiction PBs in the same topic, one PB submitted for a spring SCBWI Conference Critique with an editor, and a fantasy PB.  I have a couple that have been out for a long time with no response, so I've written those off. But you never know!