Off it goes!

My desk

When Rules won a Newbery Honor, I was given a contract at my publisher for three books (two novels and Hot Rod Hamster), and they held an option for my fourth middle-grade novel. An option means they get first refusal. Since I've written a first draft of a new novel for myself now, this week I worked on the first three chapters and a synopsis to meet that option. It went off this morning!

You'd think sending off a book proposal would be exciting, wouldn't you? But it's a bubbling brew of exciting, scary, sad, hopeful and lots of other things all mixed together. Waiting is one of the hardest parts of the whole process.

Good thing I have chocolate. :)