Sooooooooooooo………. Yesterday, I finished my book!!!

Yahoo!!!!!

Zippity Doo Dah Day!!!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

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Ok!

Now that I got all that out of my system, I’m ready to get back to it! It’s time to do my first read through, looking for gaps, loose threads, and other things needing a bit of love.

I’m actually as excited for this part as I would be to read a new book off the shelf! It has taken me nearly a year to fully write this story, so I haven’t seen the beginning for some time.

Honestly, the hard part is over… at least it feels like it!

To be perfectly honest with you, I’m not sure how I feel right now. One minute I feel amazing, completing the first volume of a very large series, with clear skies ahead! Then I think, what if I’m a one and done? What if I get to Volume II and can’t see the story as clearly as the first?

Then I move to the business side of things, daydreaming that a publisher just walks up to my RV and knocks on the door… of course we want your book, ma’am, we’ve simply been waiting with barely contained excitement!

While the odds of that happening anytime soon, aren’t anything I would head to the race track with… a girl can dream, can’t she?

All I know to do, at this point, is to edit the bananas out of the book so that feel better prepared to stand my ground, when I deal with publishers and their editing and illustration departments. I fully expect grammatical edit work, in fact, I’m looking forward to someone else proofing that for me, because I’m not above poorly spelled words and/or going comma crazy, at times.

Anyway, no matter how things play out from here, I know deep in my heart that God is proud of my work, watching over and helping me, as I wrote the whole thing! If God is smiling over this story then I feel pretty comfortable sharing it with the world. My confidence and happiness are not contingent on the success of this book!

Anything beyond pleasing God is a bonus, or a happy accident, if you want to call it that! What I truly want is for the reader to see the world I see, and enjoy a beautiful adventure no matter their age or ideals… that’s it! I’m fairly certain that I will have accomplished that, by the time this book is ready to be printed.

We shall see… we shall see…