The Promise Kept!

 Whew! I think I’m finally catching my breath!

Let me catch you up with what’s been going on…

WAY back in August, Rachel Burkot, assistant editor at Love Inspired, was a guest on Seekerville.

You can read about her visit here:

                                                             Rachel Burkot's visit to Seekerville

If you read down to the bottom of the post, you may notice that the wonderful ladies of Seekerville launched a contest that day – the “Love Inspired Read-Me Contest”. It was one of those surprise contests Seekerville does so well, and 

                                                                      wonder of wonders, 

                                                                                                                  I was prepared!

I had three chapters of my story done

                                                                    (in fact, I had the whole thing, well, mostly done),

                      and I had a synopsis written. 

           

We had 24 hours to submit our stuff.

And I won.

MY FIRST CONTEST!!!

I was thrilled :)

But then Rachel Burkot asked me to send her my full manuscript :) and I was thrilled again.

 

And then she asked for revisions :) and I was thrilled again!

BUT,

there’s an interesting thing about the publishing business. 

The author is just one little cog in a huge machine. I sent my revised manuscript to Rachel in December, and waited. And waited.

I’m glad I already knew about being a little cog. The machine was working away, but I couldn’t see what was going on.

I wondered if Rachel had found it in her inbox,

                I wondered if she had sent it on to a Senior Editor, 

                              I wondered if I should revise it again while I waited…

But I took the advice of the Seekervillians again and started on my next book…

               

             

Flash forward to April. 

Out of the blue (seemingly to me) Rachel Burkot emailed me, asking for a proposal and a longer synopsis! 

In early May my wonderful agent called with the good news that Love Inspired was offering a contract!

                And another revision letter.

                I was more than thrilled.

               

Maniacal laughing thrilled!

Balloons and fireworks thrilled!!

Roll on the floor and bark out loud thrilled!!!

A forty-five year dream come true :) and… 

a promise kept…

                                  "The Promises We Keep" - my first blog post :)