So I went to bed.
And then I got up again and checked the computer, and holy schmoly, someone had read my chapters! I had an email to tell me so! Oh, the nerves. Did they hate it? They'd left a comment, so I clicked through to see.
The first thing that struck me was that it was from a man. Not that it mattered, it just surprised me. But the good news was that he seemed to like it, so that was encouraging. Phew!
What I didn't know at the time was that he was actually the guy who runs authonomy - I found out a couple of hours later when I had an official looking email from HarperCollins asking if I happened to have a completed manuscript.
Did I have a completed manuscript? Hell yeah! Would I be able to send it over by email? By this point I'd have walked the hundred or so miles to their offices and handed it in myself.
So there it was. I polished the mansucript until it shone, spell-checked it eight hundred times, made no mention of ribbon, and pressed send. ( After my finger had hovered over the button and I'd made weird squeaking noises like a rusty door blowing in the wind for ten minutes, obviously. No one just presses send, do they?)
And then I waited...
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From First Word to Publication ~ Undertaking Love by Kat French
No FicciónMy true-life diary from first stroke of the key as a brand new writer to publication by Avon. My first romantic comedy, Undertaking Love, is to be published in June 2014 by HarperCollins. I also write erotic romance as Kitty French. I've recorded my...
