JamieB --
I'd so DM you if I knew!
The agent went on to say she'd thought to herself, "I have a manuscript just like that right now," thinking of mine.
But, I didn't sign with that agent. However, it was a ray of sunshine for contemporaries.
I have everything crossed for you and your work. Hopefully I don't annoy anyone here with my perpetual positivity, but I do believe "If not this book, then the next."
That's how I'm thinking of my own ms soon to go out on sub. I'm always working on the next ms, to make fresh chances.
There're a lot of things out of our hands. Except for the writing, literally, so tap, tap tapping ...
I believe, if we keep writing, it'll happen, eventually. I think of it like, if I decided to walk to the Pacific ocean, pointed myself in the right direction, and kept taking steps, most likely I'd eventually hear waves crashing and be shaking sand from my shoes.
That's my philosophy of submission sanity, anyway. It gives each singular book less of a stranglehold over my life.
Em
