Waiting game

While the eyes of much of the world are fixed firmly on the Vatican City, mine are pointed toward Washington, D.C. Not for this sequester business, which is on my mind, but rather because my agent's office is there in dc. I received an email recently that the proposal was in his stack of stuff, but who knows what that entails. I have visions of this leaning tower of dusty manuscripts and three-ringed-binders with tabs and paper clips sandwiched between post-its and dog-eared pages of other people's dreams of publication. Somewhere in that mountain rests my 64-page proposal for what could be the next Stephanie myer-esque blockbuster. No blood-sucking necessary, but hopefully my blockbuster will surface and make its way to a publishing house soon. In the meantime- the waiting game......

It's off!!!

Well, I finally sent my proposal to the agent. All that's left now it the crying I guess. I know the series will be of great interest and entertainment to kids of middle school age, so all that needs to happen now is someone with more clout than I ever had to agree with that point. It's daunting in some ways to send such an amateur and un-trained work off to an agent. So much of me thinks I have no business in the writing business, but I have so many stories I want to tell. This series is just on book 1 of at least 6 to finish telling this story, and I already have two others waiting to be told. It was refreshing to meet with an old friend of mine from college last Friday and tell him that I had written this book. In some ways it was reaffirming as it rolled off my tongue to state "I wrote a book." There wasn't much surprise from him- I guess because I have always loved to tell a story- but I enjoyed the element of saying "I wrote a book."

Now, I need to add to my phrase, "and someone wants to publish it!"

Going to send it

Ok, the teacher I have helping proof my book has not returned the las part of my proposal. More than likely it is perfectly fine, or has just minor typos, but being new to this book-writing thing I am paranoid that a publishing house will see a comma splice and fail to read the proposal. I am scared that the agent I am using may grow weary of my prolonged reply, so I am thinking I will send this proposal as-is and pray I have caught the errors. I am so tired of not making forward progress, and I know the story I am telling people will want to read, so why delay any longer? I am going to rip the band-aid off and send my proposal. Here's to hoping....