Publishing assistants

Another email, another publishing assistant. I realise how long this book has been in gestation by the number of contacts I have had at the publishers. I’m not sure whether dealing with new authors is part of the junior roles, but they seem to be moving on quite rapidly. I hope they are moving onwards…

To email or not to email?

That was the question bedevilling (did you see what I did there?) me all last week, until I finally got up the courage to email my publisher to ask for a progress update. A scary thought, because I could take the approach that no news is good news, but three months makes me doubt my…