Friday, January 14, 2011
Finished Writing my Novel
I wonder how I can sit here so calm after several years of writing my latest suspense/romance novel. "The Red Headed Spy" is now ready to find a publisher and hopefully soon to be in some of my readers home. I sent it to my editor the first of December before the holidays in 2010. It has been returned with a few corrections to be made. Those are finished and now my baby is sitting here at my elbow. I have frustrations of letting go of my book. Have any of you written a novel? Did you find yourself feeling the same way? Scared yet excited. Not wanting to let the book go yet wanting it to rush out to the waiting world. It's like the day you take your first child to pre-school and feel uncertain leaving them with the new teacher. I enjoyed writing this book but now am being called to finish my trilogy of 3 Texas school teachers finding intrique/romance in the Middle East. I sit here chastising myself to get the query letter ready for the finished novel and to send it to someone. Anyone, just send it. As all novelist I'm ready to sell my book. I have let a couple of friends proof and critique the pages. They seemed to enjoy the story. So here's to a new year, a new challenge finishing my trilogy, and a hopeful success of a finished novel.
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Congratulations! and no I've never written a novel, only very short little stories about me and my family when I was a child...I feel a tiny, tiny little fraction, maybe a micro fraction of what you're feeling when you send your book into the world..."will someone else like/love what I wrote?" "will they enjoy what I wrote?" "will they understand what I wrote?" Look forward to knowing that's it's published and that I can buy a copy!
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