When I finished writing my first book, I felt a deep sense of accomplishment.  It took me several years to find my voice.  I did what felt like a million rewrites to make the book a solid submission.  I agonized for months over writing a proper synopsis.  I even wrote a second book of the series and had three more mapped out to write.

     I pitched it to an agent at a writer’s conference.  “Send it to me,” She said.

     I did and within a few weeks, I’d signed a contract with her.

     What happened then?  My agent submitted it to one publishing house after another all of whom turned my book down.  I have some of the nicest rejection letters I’ve ever seen.  Nonetheless, I remained unpublished.  I pulled that first book and set it aside with the second one and the other three I’d mapped out in the series.  I had a new idea.  

     I’m not a fast writer.  I often have daily life interfere with my writing existence.  However, I am a writer and I will finish my books but it may take a bit longer than I expected.