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Good morning/afternoon/evening,

As you can see, I like titles. If I write something, it has to have a title even if it’s merely a word. I try to make them fun. I personally, like the word hooey. It sounds like gooey and most anything that is gooey is either fun or tastes good. Not mentioning the things are gross and gooey. Those I don’t handle well. But I like Hooey. It’s a nice way of saying B.S. and still being proper and kid friendly. Plus most people in the “writing” world are turned off by swear words unless appropriately placed in an amped up scene in an action or thriller novel. I have been known though, to throw my grandmother’s favorite swear word around a time or two. It’s mainly the present that my 19 year old, indoor cat leaves at my bedroom door. (Insert word gooey here, blech) anyways. I guess he figures that since he can’t bring a mouse from outside that he has to do something to show he loves me.

Wow have I ever gotten off track!! Squirrel moment, sorry.

So I did a thing and I’m nervous about the thing I did! I finished my novel and then sent it off for possible publication to not one place, but two! I sent it off to Carina as I mentioned in an earlier blog through submittable. Well on submittable, it says received when you send it. I let almost a week go by and checked it yesterday morning and it now says “In-Progress.” Now, if you research that on the internet, some say it can sit like that forever but, the reason it says that is that it has been “handled” in some sort of way. I guess it’s better than sitting in received purgatory forever right?

So I searched for another publishing company to send it to while waiting and to ensure that it’s has a fighting chance in the world of writing to go on to be awesome! I went back through and line edited again, because writers are ocd, and sent it off to Forever Yours which is an impress of a publishing company that has completely slipped my mind at the moment 😉 anyways. Forever Yours has easy submission guidelines and not a bunch of red tape. You know the ones-double spaces, 12 point font, your name in Roman numerals, encrypted speech blah blah blah, I don’t get those. Like why all the fluff? So I’m waiting for the email saying they received it. I sent it on a weekend day, typical.

Now, not only did I send that off. I was feeling rather bold and sent off one of my never released children’s stories. Two I have on Amazon but my degree isn’t in marketing so they’re currently holding a spot on Amazon on my author page. Which by the way, if you would like to see them, they are at Amazon.com and then search my name. I tried to share the link but it didn’t come through.

Waiting for the response times on all of those and writing my second novel in the process.

The response time for Carina Press is 12 weeks. The response time for Forever Yours is 8 weeks and the response time time for Ripple Press, the children’s publisher, is 5 months. Hurry up and wait. Such is life in the writing world.

So there’s all my Hooey.