I feel the need to post so I am only going to say.
It is 2013. I can now say I have book coming out this year. Woo hoo!
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It Finally Happened!!! (And I missed it)
That’s right, the call I waited my entire life for came and I missed it, I was at work. That call came from Angela James at Carina Press who left me a very nice voice mail to tell me she was very sorry she missed me but she’d send me a follow up email. Even without any of the details, I squeed. Yes, I said squee. I’m not ashamed to admit it.
When the email came, I might have actually screamed a little. You see, the email told me that not only did they love Possession and wish to extend an offer on it, they wished to offer on the second book in the series as well. I was completely blown away. Obviously I accepted and I’m thrilled to be added to Carina’s fabulous roster of authors.
When chosing where to submit to, Carina topped the list not only because of their reputation, but I really felt Possession would be a good fit there. I also knew that being a digital publisher the production schedule would be much faster and they would be much more likely to end up wanting the full series. And I guess that’s true since they picked up the first two.
So I’ll keep you guys updated as I have information to share. In the meantime, I need to finish that second book. 🙂
I’m having a moment.
I thought this book was good before. But now….wow. Just…wow. No other way to say that. Thank you to all the agents that rejected me and especially to the ones that more or less said I could do better. You were right. I’m going to prove it.
More good news!!
Just thought I’d pop in and let you know that I have received notification of my final placement for the FF&P contest. I took First!!! I’m so incredibly surprised and thrilled. I will also receive a shiny new banner to display here on my site. Yay me! It’s been a good week. 🙂
Sorry for the delay….
The fact is, I haven’t updated the blog lately because I was a little bummed about this whole process. I was getting rejection after rejection on my queries. And I got two more rejections on partials, not only were they rejections, they were form rejections. No real feedback at all. ugh. It really makes you second guess yourself.
But then I got some totally awesome news just when I needed it. You remember my very first blog post way back when about Deidre Knight? (if not you should totally go read it. I’ll wait here. Done? Okay, then…) Anyway, here’s the thing about Deidre, and I have to be honest here, I had already crossed her off the list of potential agents in my brain. Not because I didn’t want her as an agent, quite the opposite in fact, but because I considered her unattainable. There was no way she was going to want me.
Well, guess what? She liked what I sent her enough to ask for the full manuscript! This is huge! I’m thrilled and overwhelmed and all that stuff. This is the first time this has happened to me cuz I’m still pretty new at all this submission stuff, and it’s impossible to describe. The feeling you get when an agent reads part of your book and wants to read more is this heady combination of absolute terror and total elation. As usual, I’ll let y’all know how it goes.
Oh, and the contest? Still haven’t heard anything about the final placements. grrr. will let you know when I do though!
Kathleen Collins 