Exciting News: A Publishing Contract!

So, there I was, busily editing and revising Book 3 in The Seeker Series, trying to get it ready to publish on amazon, when an email notification popped up on my desktop: a response to my latest query to a publisher. Now, just so you understand and have a proper framework for this story, I have an email folder devoted to my multitudinous queries and their corresponding rejections. I���m sure many of my fellow authors have something similar. This particular query had advanced to the stage where they had requested the full manuscript and I was fully expecting the usual ���thanks but no thanks��� response. So, the notification pops up, and I think, ���Oh, great! Just what I need���yet another rejection right before I go to bed.��� I nearly convinced myself to save the pain for morning. I���m really glad I didn���t because the email was short and to the point: we would like to offer you a contract for The Seeker Series, if you are still interested.

OMG! I just about fell off the couch. Finally! I managed to contain myself long enough to send a response: Yes, thank you. I am interested in signing with you. Then I headed to the pantry to see if I had a bottle of champagne left over from New Year���s Eve. Nothing like an entire bottle of champagne at 11:00 pm, huh?

I cannot express the level of legitimacy and encouragement this gives me as a writer. Someone, beyond my family and friends, believes that my writing has potential. I am so excited to embark on this next step in my writing career and hope to have lots of new experiences to share with my readers soon. My publisher (can I just stop and say how much I LOVE saying that!) wants me to change the titles, and I���m not such a diva that I would refuse, so I am talking to my fans���all five of them���about ideas. I am also busy unpublishing the current versions and changing my Twitter and Facebook profiles. I can hardly wait to see my books after they have been professionally edited and with new covers! Sweet! I feel so lucky! Yes, I���ve worked hard to make this happen, but so have many other authors.

Stay tuned for more info about release dates, cover reveals, etc. I���m sure I will be plastering them all over this blog and all my social media. Thanks for your support!