I wrote a book! What a novel idea.
Travel agent by day, novelist by night. For years my routine regularly involves going to work just as Holly, but when I get home I put on my cape and morph into my alter-ego Rocket Girl (or Travel Junkie, or Grammatically Correct Girl, whatever, I haven’t come up with a good Super Hero name yet) and curl up with my laptop and hammer away. It’s not going to save the world (unless, of course there’s a massive flood and the world needs to use it as a flotation device), but my efforts have finally bore fruit and my novel is finally complete. You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to say that. I’ve finally written something that passes my anal-retentive “is this good enough to show other people?” test! Insert happy dance here.
It’s an action/mystery work of fiction, but, naturally, there’s a giant amount of travel thrown in. This is me, here. Here’s the gist (I’m not going to spoil it now!): five years ago a group of people witnessed a brutal murder in a Seattle bar, and the killer was never captured. In the interim, the witnesses have dispersed all over the globe, either trying to escape bad memories or through job commitments. When suddenly someone begins unexpectedly hunting down and killing the witnesses, two survivors take it upon themselves to warn the others, but when standard phone calls/e-mails fail, they take to the skies. Thus begins an international cat-and-mouse game that spans the planet from Seattle to Bangkok, Sydney to London, one where motivation, trust and the truth are put to the ultimate test and a missed connection could leave them permanently delayed.
Ooh, that actually sounds pretty good. I’ll have to save that.
Anyhow, I’m so crazy-happy-over the moon that it’s finally done, but now I’m entering a whole new phase of the writing process. The first hurdle is, of course, sucking up that fear that your closest friends and family (or as I like to call them, the “focus group”) are going to read the first draft and hate it (not that they’d actually say that, I do love them for a reason, but still…). Then there’s the next step of “how the hell am I supposed to get this published?” This is the new adventure, the research, the nerve-wracking submitting my manuscript for its blind dates in hoping we’ll find the perfect publisher and soon end up on Chapters shelves everywhere. I’ve had articles published before, but this is a whole different animal, not to mention a hell of a lot more postage to mail. You know that super-excited-but-scared-to-the-point-of-nearly-loosing-bladder-control feeling? I’m there.
I don’t know how this is going to progress, but I can’t wait! Of course, I’ll blog about it every step of the way.
Woo hoo! My book is done!
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Congratulations Holly, I knew you could do it! Remember, my e-mail address says it all and I started using it about 10 years ago.