More Rambling

I was thinking more about the self-publishing route and wondering if I'm too self conscious and/or lazy for this. Then something hit me like an overused simile. Indie publishing companies. They've got enough cred to make people think I didn't just slap a pile of words on some paper and call it a novel, but are still small enough to let me have some control over what I'm writing as long as I'm selling. And, as I said in the other post, I will sell. Even if it means I'll have to walk from bookstore to bookstore in the cold Chicago night carrying a satchel of my books.

Which brings me to the question: if the story's still in beta and the small press says it'll take them at least 8 weeks to reply to a query, should I query now with the aside that it is being edited by outside parties and will be done by X date or wait until it is done and possibly miss the submission window? Hm.