The deed is done---or should I say, begun?? I FINALLY submitted a query letter for my picture book! This may sound small, but it has taken months, maybe even years of mental preparation!!!
Back in the 'good ole days' of when I was a completely ACTIVE writer, I was writing and sending queries all over the gaff. However, that stopped sometime after my divorce and really, hadn't begun until today.
TODAY----HOORAY!
It was only one page and truly, only a few lines, but with some wonderful help from my writing friends, Beth Raisner Glass and Christine Blacke, I finally took a breath, got my butt in the chair, and wrote it.
I definitely cobbled pieces of their samples onto my own ideas, but hey, that's community, right? I could not have done it without their help.
Now, I am well aware of the fact that this is really just a first step. I have many, many other queries to go, and also a LOT more writing to do, but this was a hurdle that was really paralyzing for me and to have jumped it and landed, is absolutely exhilerating.
It's something completed. It's a goal reached. And because I was able to do this, it inspires me to do so much more.
For the past week--I have been compiling information about publishing houses and agents. I have been journaling and talking to friends and loved ones about how I wanted, no needed to do this, but until to day, it was all talk.
Whew. To put actions to work and words to page, it is just, wow.
So.
A first step. And what a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
I did it!
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