Sure, with a caveat: I went through my 2022-2023 sales and the vast majority of them just don’t fall into this category – they are either illustration deals where the publisher came to US rather than vice-versa, or they are part of an ongoing series or longstanding editor-author relationship where we didn’t actually submit any material, or only submitted to one publisher. This is just because I have a lot of long-term clients already in long-term relationships, it happens!

So here are my stats, in the manner that J-Sol put hers:

PB text - 3 months

PB text - 15 months

PB text 3 months

PB text  5 months

Chapter books 3 months

MG  7 months

PB auth-illus 2 months

Graphic Novel 7 months

MG  5 months

PB text  15 months

PB text 4 months

These examples are hardly the longest or shortest lengths of time things have been on submission in my experience (the longest was like, ten years, obviously in multiple rounds with breaks in between – the shortest was like ten hours) – this is just a random snapshot of recent deals.

TBH, your question sort of made me laugh because, as you can see, while SOME books sell in 2-3 months, that’s not really the case MOST of the time, that would be quite fast actually. 2-3 months in publishing time is like 48 hours in normal-people time, it’d actually be rare that a deal even COULD close much faster than that. Possible, sure, but very much NOT probable.

I’d also add that, while these examples have no context / identifying info, I can assure you that “bigger”/well-published authors often do just as much waiting around as newbies, and the length of time on submission has no bearing on the size of the deal or anything else, really.