I recently joined Facebook, so when I get home from work these days, my inbox is usually fuller than it used to be as I'm getting lots of notices about postings from my friends.
However, as I was scanning the list of new mail, one caught my eye and I held my breath. It was an email from an agent I had queried the end of July. It wasn't a reply to the email I had sent her. It was a new one. Could it be.....?
YES!! She wrote that she'd read the three sample chapters I'd sent her as well as the synopsis and she wants to read the rest of the book - if, she said, it was still available. If no other agent had snapped it out of my hands, she would like to read it.
As luck would have it, that manuscript IS still available and so I sent it off this afternoon. She emailed me back that she'd received it and would get back to me as soon as she'd had a chance to review it.
The waiting begins, again. But this waiting is so much more fun. I can daydream about her devouring my book, calling me to tell me she devoured it and wants to represent me. We'll talk about which editor she thinks will love it too and how many copies will be printed in the first run. Then, a year or so from now, I'll be able to hold in my hands a printed, bound, hardback (or heck, even a trade paperback) copy of MY BOOK!!!
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Yes, that would be wonderful. And it is so much fun to hope.
yes, that would be wonderful
ReplyDeleteNot only would that be wonderful, it would be ever so richly deserved.
ReplyDeleteI very much hope your dream of getting a book deal comes true for you.I just started reading your blog now that my son Jacob Ashcraft has opened a facebook account.I really like the way you write.I like to write poems and songs and it all started in my nineth grade english class.Good luck to you and keep writing.
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