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Why Does It Take So Long to Publish a Book?

Why Does It Take So Long to Publish a Book?

A short post on why publishing takes such a long time

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Lincoln Michel
Jun 29, 2022
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Robin navigating a Big 5 production schedule

Publishing a book can feel like it takes forever. Forever to write, forever to query agents, forever to find an editor, and then, somehow, forever for the publisher to get the damn thing—by this point you’re sick of your own work—on shelves.

For this post, I’m just talking about the last part: how long it take…

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