“For writers, few steps in the publishing process are as strange as the state of suspended animation between submitting a manuscript and seeing the book appear in stores. The sudden change in cabin pressure from writing to waiting can be jarring — and can last a very long time. ‘It comes as a huge shock when it happens the first time,’ said the Irish writer Colm Toibin, whose first novel, ‘The South,’ appeared in 1990, a year and a half after he turned it in. ‘It was all slow and strange.’”
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Donadio-t.html?ex=1359694800&en=483a6d8ccbcc1af7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
