My Midnight Room

I am finally - in the final stages of publishing my novel.
It has been a long and tedious journey, filled with rejections
and disappointments.

Earlier this year I attended two different writer's conferences regarding
the publishing of books in the USA.

The first, in Arizona , was by far the more impressive and believable.They
truthfully told the attendees what the difficulties were about getting published
today. It all made good sense.

The second one in New York - well, we were honored to have some real live agents
telling us they hardly ever have time to read our queries, let alone our manuscripts.
If the do, you better hook them in the first sentence or you are gone!

Thinking about all of this - the time it took to write that novel, the editing, the re-editing,
the finding a real editor who will edit your manuscript for a fee, then throwing your ms away
after the first sentence! Well, that really did not impress me much. I felt like running away as
far as possible from any lit agents.

But I still had my novel, and two others waiting to be passed through the mill.

Self publishing! Voilà!

I found a writer who has been through the motions and she is now helping new authors to
get their work into a nicely packaged book.

To be continued ...