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Step one achieved

May 6, 2010 by Tahlia Newland

There it is. The email I’ve been waiting for for nearly two weeks.  The one I stopped checking my emails for. Why? Because, so long as I don’t know what the answer is, a positive outcome is still a possibility.  Does the agent like my novel?

Take a deep breath, drop the hope – fear slides away with it – and click.

I leap off my seat and spin around. I laugh and jump up and down. I really do. Then I text daughter Kimberley and husband Chris.  Hubby sends a message back – whoopy do, bananas and cream!  That’s an in joke for those who’ve read the ms ( manuscript in publishing world speak). Kimberley sends lots of WOWs and other Neanderthal syllables that mean roughly the same thing.

Here’s the cause of the excitement.

I have read the ms and think it could be for me. It was hard to put down! 

Please note that it is a very crowded and difficult market and it is hard to get publishers to read manuscripts in a timely manner.

I’d like to talk to you about the ms and how we should proceed. Give me a call.

 

Now I have to phone her. I might wait until my hear rate slows down. I think I need some food.

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  1. Jo Wall de Gallo says

    May 6, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Wow and more wows, now I am so pleased for you Tahlia, and as soon as you get the book published, I will be the first cab off the rank to buy one!!! You have so much talent!!

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