Publication Timeline Quotes

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.

I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.

When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.