- Joined
- Mar 29, 2005
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- 472
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- Location
- Nebraska
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- www.mdmkay.blogspot.com
I started to submit some of mss's before I left my soon to be ex. That's been about 3 years ago. As all of you know I was one of those caught in PA's trap but that wasn't with this particular mss. The mss was sent to my old address and I was always asking my ex if it had come back. One day he said it did and they had rejected me but said if I could find some illustrations for the book I could probably re-aplly in about 6 months....but he forgot where he lost the letter. Like a dumb butt like I am ...I believed him. Alot of stuff was going on in my life (unavoidable things where I couldn't even get assess to a computer) and I didn't know any illustrators and the project kept getting put off and off and like a year later I called to see if they were still interested if I could find an illustrator....she said she didn't remember the mss and they were going through a big overhauling of the company to wait 6 mths and re-submit. I did and they rejected it...not a real big thing. UNTIL I got to snooping when I went back to my youngest son's graduation and found the letter on top in a bottom drawer of a file and found out not only had I been accepted they were all excited about obtaining it and they had given me the name and contact details of the illustrator who they had wanted me to get in touch with to do the illustrations for the book. This is three years later.....anyone want to guess how mad I was when I found this???????? What made it worse I couldn't even scream or kill him because he would have known I was snooping (I took the letter however). GEEZ WHAT A CREEP!!! Of course, now that particular publisher is no longer doing children's book they do media publishing for businesses. GROAN. It was Red Carpet Publisher...quit someone tell me they were only a scam anyway and make me feel better.