Weekly Wisdom #17
Be realistic about manuscript delivery deadlines and don’t sign a contract based on a schedule you know you can’t keep!
Posted by Charlotte FrostArt & technology broadcaster/academic & glamour puss. Founder of Arts Future Book & PhD2Published.com. Provost International Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Absolutely! And worth remembering that there’s probably some room for negotiation on deadlines. Broken deadlines cause all sorts of production headaches: most commissioning editors are going to be much happier with a longer deadline that you know you can keep than a shorter one that isn’t going to happen.