What if I’m late with my submission?
Three things will happen:
- Your chapter won’t be included in the final book.
- The book will instead just contain a short apology and the chapter brief instead.
- You’ll attract the ridicule and scorn of a disappointed world.
The deadline structure will be decided closer to the event, but usually contains a ‘soft’ deadline for submissions followed by a later ‘hard’ deadline which still enables us to say we wrote a book in 24 hours, but will push the compilation and posting of the completed work to a little after midnight.
That said, if you’re pushing up against the deadline, and have let me know that you’re going to be a few minutes late, I’ll probably defer to two old sayings: “don’t cut your nose off to spite your face” and “better late than never”.