Oh. My. Gosh. I did it. I sent the book to my sister. My hands are actually shaking as I type this. But I'm trying to tell myself that if my own sister doesn't like it (and there is a character based on her), then no agent, editor, potential reader would ever like it, so might as well jump over this hurdle now. * deep breath * This thing has been sitting on my desktop for a week and I just couldn't find the courage to send it. But now it has soared through interwebs all the way to Seattle and has been received by sister's Gmail account and is sitting there, waiting to be read. Yikes.
Well and one big prompt was the fact that our desktop computer crashed yesterday and even though I've been saving the book on a flash drive (this is honestly the number one question I get asked about the book: "Do you have it saved somewhere else than your laptop?" Do you people think I'm an idiot? On the other hand, maybe you do, and now you'll be impressed with the book even if it's just mediocre. Win?) it will be an additional form of insurance to have it sent to my sister in a PDF and MS Word doc. Just in the event a contagious, icky, mean, hell-bent computer virus is creeping around our house. Gotta play it safe.
Oh and as a little bonus for you reader, since why should my sister get all of the fun, the title of the book is * da da daaaaaa* Square One. I've actually used that phrase in a couple of posts as a little hint (I'm like the writers on LOST, I just give you a little bit and it's so small you probably didn't even realize it. But I DID use it in the "guess the title" post so I did give some fair warning). I don't know why I was so secretive about the title. It's not like you can really take anything away from that. But if you want to try, sure. Go crazy about guessing the plot.
Okay, time to be a in a perpetual state of almost vomiting while I wait and worry. * fingers crossed *
UPDATE: So far so good. Our resulting gchat conversation:
LA: i just opened it. square one- cute! ooh, annie, i have all the answers. i'm going to leak it!
me: NO! you cannot
LA: ooh, i love it. i just started, i couldn't help myself. i'm on page 2. this is so exciting!
me: haha thanks. did the first sentence hook you? i tried really hard
LA: why am I nervous? yes, it did
me: YES. thanks
Well at least she's liked the prologue so far.
1 comment:
I'm jealous! LA...can't wait to hear about it. Congrats on sending it Annie - I can only imagine the nerves!
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