Guys, I did it! No, I didn’t get an agent, but I did finally finish my revised manuscript and on 1st June I emailed it back to Potentially Interested Agent (PIA). Huzzah, you may say (and I really wish you do, keep the word alive my friends. Our double-z words are scarce enough). On theContinue reading “When The End is not The End…”
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Crunch time
A friend’s kid once came to our home for a birthday party, saw the impromptu Digger World that had sprung up around our digging of a natural swimming pond, and apparently remarked to his mum (about me) “She does everything at once”. I’m starting to feel like he had a point. So baby’s due thisContinue reading “Crunch time”
The submissions roller coaster
Gaaaaahhhhh. Ok, just had to get that off my chest. Let’s all move on. I can’t move on! I know sending stuff off to agents and hearing back from them is all just a Thing, and not on the scale of Life Events the way Child #3 nearly drowning is, for example (swimming out ofContinue reading “The submissions roller coaster”
Submitting!
Oh my goodness, well hasn’t it been a while since my last post 👀 well here’s why: I have finally, finally started submitting my actual book to actual agents. On the one hand, massive yay! On the other, it was the first time I actually started to hate any part of the writing process. IContinue reading “Submitting!”
On writing success, sickness, and the absence of lambs…
Had a good mini-streak of writing/editing again late last week, which was so reassuring! Was starting to worry after the Partying Frenzy of Easter and C2’s birthday whether I’d lost all my writing drive and if Writerly Self had finally been vanquished by Pregnant Self, etc. Happily, not so. Once we emerged from Partying FrenzyContinue reading “On writing success, sickness, and the absence of lambs…”
Country Mum Writes 