Annick Book
The book proposal/outline is finished and off to the publisher. I bashed away at it for the last couple of days with some very helpful notes from my agent. The toughest thing was to try to boil the thing down and even at that, I'm looking at 13 pages. For a book that's supposed to be 5,800 words long, I might as well have just written the first draft and handed it in as a book proposal, but I figured if I get the contract, this will save me a ton of work.
The only thing that worries me is that I'll go cold waiting to hear from the publisher. I think what I just might do is keep researching and digging deeper on some of the subjects so that I'm still in the right mindset when I hear from the publisher. If they turn down the proposal, there's no harm done because I'll know a lot more about China, and if they say yes, I'll be able to get a really good jump on the first draft.