I know my quest for the perfect literary agent will be a process. I'm ready for that. What is new for me is the kind of support I'm getting... Yesterday when I posted my first blog and I then posted it on my Facebook page it was shocking to see who I heard from. I thought "of course I'll hear from my children (and I did hear first from Rob, Meghan and then Katie) who have been there for me through this entire process. Then Tom chimed in - he was my first editor, slogging through a hard copy of my manuscript, proofreading it and encouraging me to keep going.
But then I started hearing from people who I haven't heard from in forever. My wonderful friend Lisa who now lives in Houston and read the manuscipt years ago in a really early iteration (it's evolved from then and she wouldn't even recognize many parts of it). My Aunt who's married to one of the (loosely based) characters and doesn't even know it! And then many people that I barely even know... you know how it is on Facebook, you end up "friending" people who are friends of friends or that you think you know but then you don't.
Well these wonderful people - now real friends have sent me "congratulation" and best wishes and have promised to put on their thinking caps just to see if they can help me out. I'm humbled by them and so thankful.
Thank you all for your good wishes and just for reading my thoughts.
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