I sent my manuscript to an acquisitions editor, whose job it is to screen proposals and pick likely looking proposals for further consideration. Part of that process is sending out manuscript submissions for review by people who teach the subject matter regularly.
My manuscript was sent out to five reviewers in June, and it took for-EVER for the reviews to come back! Well, it seemed like forever. But truthfully, each reviewer had about a hundred pages to look at and make detailed comments on, which is not a small undertaking.
When the reviews came back, sometime in October, the acquisitions editor and I spent about an hour on the phone dissecting them. The good news was that the reviews were generally positive. The bad news was that several of the reviews noted that my preliminary table of contents did not include coverage of a fairly major topic area.
That lack of coverage might turn out to be a deal breaker. More on this soon.
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