OK, fellow writers....I am being brave....

I am writing book proposals tonight.

Hold me in the Light......

 

I'm scared they won't like it and will say no.

I'm scared I can't do it right.

I'm chicken, so I have been putting this off.

I am beaten up by my job, so I have been disheartened....

but I HAVE to do it. you only live once....

PROCRASTI-NATION. that is where I live.

 

bravo

 

If you don't, you will never know, and I would rather know wouldn't you?

 

babe, we helped you last time and we help you again. You write good stuff. Take a belly breath, roll your shoulders back and get to that keyboard.

 

I'm working on it.....they want pics, too. Double whammy.

 

the apple part will provide the juice to go on, the thorn part will handle anything they can dish out--you can do it! (famous quote from Adam Sandler's The Waterboy)

 

OK...I sent them an outline, a sample case study, and a sample chapter/introduction. and a picture....

this one.

 

see, you can do it!

 

hmmmm...ought to be stripers or bluefish just past that first breaker. That looks so much like the ORegon Coast.

 

I have read your stuff. It is mighty good. Of course, getting starting is huge.

 

It is huge. Especially when my job is sucking and my ear is going to hell. Ok, maybe heck.

No; hell.

 

Ok>>>>they read my stuff and I am now going to call them. Still being brave.

 

OMG YOU GUYS>>>>>THEY WANT TO SEND ME A CONTRACT TO LOOK OVER!!!!!!

 

P - some of us have read your "stuff" and we are not surprised, proud of you but surely not surprised.

Bloody hell, this is awesome!!!!!! :-*

 

[size=10pt][size=10pt]OUTSTANDING[/size][/size]

 

did i say bravo

 

Thorn--that is great news--rare when anybody gets paid for their art--hope it works out for you so that it can become your "real" job--wouldn't that be really cool?
you haven't said what you sent them and who the are (or did I miss that?)

 

It's these guys and it's an environmentally friendly gardening book.

http://www.bostonmillspress.com/

 

oh argh....well, we'll see. I am sending them some sample images...even though I have had photos published in wildflower mag, washington post, a zillion papers in michigan, GR magazine twice, garden solutions magazine, and we have made POSTERS out of my images....they want to see what I "have". Um....I am not sending them 15 gigs of publication quality images, folks...too busy and that is just plain silly.

I wonder how complicated this is going to be? I can write up a storm and know how to shoot to illustrate it....wish me more luck. I am just tired and my @$(UT&#%**^%^$ ear is acting up. BUT>>>>I can still write anyway. Pttttthhhhtttpt.