When people write books, do they have to meet deadlines with publishing companies?

The publisher will buy a book and then assign an editor to the author. The editor will send the author suggested changes for the book and give a deadline for when the final draft is needed. The author make the changes he agrees with and sends the final manuscript by the deadline.



Some authors sign multi-book deals; They could be for completely different books or they could be for a sequel or series. The contract will specify when each book is due, because release dates are set at the time the contract is being negotiated. If it's a book in a series then they'll try to get that book out a year after the first book is released, so deadlines have to be met.



Publishing is full of deadlines. As a writer or author wannabe, you cannot write whenever you feel like it. You have to sit your butt in a chair regularly and write whether you feel like it or not, or you'll never get anything finished or published. If you cannot meet deadlines then you're not going to make it as an author.When people write books, do they have to meet deadlines with publishing companies?
Yes, technically speaking. The company may want to bring out a book at a given time, and the writer will have to have it finished by a deadline or face cancellation of the contract. Publishers haven't always been very firm about these things, but as the article below indicates, meeting a deadline has become rather more important.



But publishers won't drop a bestselling author because he didn't bring his book in on time.When people write books, do they have to meet deadlines with publishing companies?
The vast majority of books are written before a publishing company has ever seen them. Publishers buy _finished_ novels. They don't pay you to write.



There are exceptions. If you were contracted to write a book then there would be deadlines in the contract. But unless you are a celebrity or an established author, it doesn't happen.When people write books, do they have to meet deadlines with publishing companies?
yes and i think that would be very hard to do although i think some of the big authors set there own date