Elizabeth Cunningham asked Colleen Houck:

Do you have any advice to young authors who are going through the submission/editing process?

Colleen Houck Hi Elizabeth. The submission/editing process isn't my favorite thing about writing. I am definitely not an expert on the subject and still lean heavily on my agent for counsel. As far as editing goes, at some point, you have to let go of a manuscript. Once I've finished a book, I do a final reread, adjusting as I go and then I stop. Fussing with it too much doesn't do anyone any good. I hand it over to someone else at that point and then when they tell me to edit again, I do. That may be an editor or my agent or someone else. I never go asking for other people to take a look though. I simply move on to my next project. If you dwell too long on one thing, it stops your momentum. You can always return to it at some point and shake off the dust but if you get hung up on one thing for years, you'll never know what else you could have done.

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