Well, not entirely true. But still..
For a good 2 years I've been querying literary agents for a novel, submitting poetry to magazines and journals, and short stories to online blogs, contests, you name it.
Nada. Nothing.
And now, in the last month I've had an offer from a small press to publish my novel, an acceptance on a creative non-fiction essay (the first I've ever written, and it's with a huge audience) and a short story accepted with a great online literary magazine. I feel SO incredibly lucky, yet I know so much of this is because I'm so dang stubborn I never gave up submitting!
I will share more details as things are "official" as right now the contract isn't signed, and pieces aren't published yet so I don't want to name names. But I'm floored. I'm kind of afraid something bad is going to happen to me ha ha, because so much good came all at once!
Anyway, I just wanted to share and do a happy dance.
For a good 2 years I've been querying literary agents for a novel, submitting poetry to magazines and journals, and short stories to online blogs, contests, you name it.
Nada. Nothing.
And now, in the last month I've had an offer from a small press to publish my novel, an acceptance on a creative non-fiction essay (the first I've ever written, and it's with a huge audience) and a short story accepted with a great online literary magazine. I feel SO incredibly lucky, yet I know so much of this is because I'm so dang stubborn I never gave up submitting!
I will share more details as things are "official" as right now the contract isn't signed, and pieces aren't published yet so I don't want to name names. But I'm floored. I'm kind of afraid something bad is going to happen to me ha ha, because so much good came all at once!
Anyway, I just wanted to share and do a happy dance.