A very strange and wonderful thing happened this month. I got an email from a publisher, HarperCollins to be precise, about The Sand Sifters. They were having an unagented novel submission for two weeks in October of 2012. I submitted The Sand Sifters and Seeing Shadows. I got a basic, nonpersonalized rejection email in January of 2013 (no book names) and assumed it was either for both, or that one of the novels was lost in submission. We bought the Studio a couple months later and I gave up on writing and publishing for then.
Fast forward to May 9th. My wedding anniversary and date that I had my interview with HarperCollins - and my first book offer. They are giving me a Harper Voyager Impulse contract for The Sand Sifters and two sequels. I checked the offer with a couple agents who said it seemed typical and have accepted. The editor is hammering out the details and dates things need to be in by, edited by, and published by - then will send me the contract to sign. I am alternately over the moon and terrified I won't be able to meet the deadline and run Studio Om. This should be one of the most interesting, amazing, learning experience of my 43 years. Onward and upward!
Fast forward to May 9th. My wedding anniversary and date that I had my interview with HarperCollins - and my first book offer. They are giving me a Harper Voyager Impulse contract for The Sand Sifters and two sequels. I checked the offer with a couple agents who said it seemed typical and have accepted. The editor is hammering out the details and dates things need to be in by, edited by, and published by - then will send me the contract to sign. I am alternately over the moon and terrified I won't be able to meet the deadline and run Studio Om. This should be one of the most interesting, amazing, learning experience of my 43 years. Onward and upward!
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