Sometimes patience pays off. This time it did. I was contracted in 2010 to write a 5-book series for Marshall Cavendish Benchmark (MCB). The books were to be 64-pages, ~12,000 words, illustrated with colour photographs. I finished the series in the spring of 2012 but just at the same time MCB put up a For Sale sign out front. The books sat there, fully written, edited and designed with no projects moving to the printers at all. Even my editor was out of a job as most of the MCB editorial staff had been let go. I worked on other projects, keeping one eye out for the buyer of MCB.For an entire year nothing happened. Then one day I was reading Publisher's Weekly  and I saw an article about the Cavendish Square purchase of MCB. I searched online for a press release, found it and at the bottom was an email address. I sent off a quick email to Cavendish Square (CS), a new imprint of Rosen Publishers, telling them about my series and asking whether they would be interested in taking it to press. Within 3 hours the phone rang. It was an editor at CS - they definitely wanted to publisher the series!