Doors close, windows open.

[sabrinamari]

I just finished my book.

My editor wants to read it right away, but will not commit to publishing it; in the last 4 months the publishing house has changed its focus. Since I didn't stay in close contact throughout that period, I didn't know. In all fairness, I went several months beyond the end date on my contract so it is within her power to do this.

She will pass me on to another publishing house if she can't work with it.

At this moment, I am simply stunned that the effort of so many years is finished. Tomorrow, the work of finding the perfect publishing opportunity starts. Tonight, I will send it out with the prayer that it finds exactly the right spot.

Blessed Be.

Comments

[justusgirlz.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing the book!!!! YAY!!!!! Another milestone accomplished - GO SABRINA!!!

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

Yay, finished!

Boo, publisher! Hope you find the perfect publishing outlet for it soon.

[jeneralist.livejournal.com]

Wa-HOO! Yip-PEE! and other interjections and exclamations of delight!

[marccarlson.livejournal.com]

Congrats. I wish I could get mine done...

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I was able to finish mine when I got help. For a long time I was stuck, thinking that only *I alone* could/should do this. I started moving again when a friend who is also a specialist whose area overlaps with mine agreed to read 2 chapters. Her honest feedback gave me a place to re-start.

As I started moving and revising, I began to see what the next step was, and the step after that. This pushed me along for several chapters. When I stopped again, another friend helped me start, this time by scaring the hell out of me. She implied that my job was at risk unless I finished. This lit a fire under me that exceeded my fears of continuing. that was good for 2 more fast chapter revisions.

And when I was down to the last chapter and a few fixes here and there, I stopped again. The terror of finishing and facing actual success was too large. Besides, I'd have to talk to my editor when I finished!

So I brought up a friend who specializes in rebirthing, divination and coaching. She did two sessions with me to help me articulate my underlying fears and the terrors I had buried about finishing, and did a couple of throws to allow me to compare my fears with a Tarot's perspective of reality. I was able to see that many of my fears were simply that: fears, not realities. This lifted a huge burden off my shoulders ao I could work.

Then this friend literally held my hand while I called my editor.
Twice.

It worked. I finished.

I *needed help*, just like I needed help to finish my dissertation (I got a writing coach for the last year to eight months of that, and hired a dear friend to help me edit and do the bibliography).

I hope that at last, this experience has replaced my old beliefs (that I had to do all the scary things alone) with the reality that I almost always need a little help from my friends for the really hard stuff.

And writing is part of the really hard stuff for me.

I don't know if this helps any, but I am hopeful that it will.

I am rooting for you, Marc!

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

W00T!!!!!!!!!

[sligoe.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I can relate to the feeling fo stunned---it was like the day that my daughter got married---I was sending her out with all my prayers for her living and growing. Writing a book and then sending it out to the world is like that, I suspect. ALl the hopes, drams, hard work being sent on it's way and out of your hands.

Many hugs---soon, that book will delight thousands.
SMIB

And as for my daughter? She has a daughter, and a job that she loves that pays over ten grand more than mine does. I think she did all right! :)

[skyefyr.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Bunny!

And remember, you haven't been rejected. She has prepared you for the possibility, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Someone needs to do a little more positive thinking!

[seedmoon.livejournal.com]

Damn girl!
I am once again impressed and as always, proud of you.
You conitue to RULE in so many ways.

I look forward to reading my signed sabrinamari first edition.