Today's 'HOW I GOT PUBLISHED' is a unique look at the life of mommy/writers. Sometimes we get big news when our hands are... um... dirty.
Here is Joselyn with her story :)
How I got published...
It involved poop. Literally.
I had agonized over the query letter and the dreaded synopsis, and sent my first manuscript to thirty-some agents. While some expressed interest, no one offered to represent me.
I wasn’t ready to stick the manuscript under the bed with the dust bunnies and the dog hair, so I chose a few editors that would look at unagented manuscripts. Within a couple weeks, I had two requests for the full manuscript. After all the rejections, this was unbelievable. While I was bouncing with just the requests, I really expected to receive the million-times photocopied rejection letter. I typed the expected reply dates into my spreadsheet and promised myself not to even think about it until those dates were passed. Well, that didn’t happen.
But with infant twins, I was otherwise occupied enough of the time to not be obsessing constantly. My days were spent making formula, rocking babies, wearing spit-up and, yes, changing diapers.
Two months before it was even likely that any of the editors would have opened the envelope with the novel in it, I was in the bathroom changing my daughter’s diaper. When the phone rang, I looked down at her. We were far enough into the change that I couldn’t slap the diaper back on. I couldn’t leave her on the counter to grab the phone. She wasn’t clean enough to pick her up and dash for the phone, so I let it ring. The machine picked up and I could hear the message as we finished cleaning up. The caller asked for my pen name and my heard skipped.
As soon as the diaper was changed, I dashed to listen to the message. They were offering me a contract for my first book, CEOs Don’t Cry.
The benefit of the diaper was that I could listen to the message over and over.
JOSELYN's AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE: http://www.amazon.com/Joselyn-Vaughn/e/B002I28GUO/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1361532836&sr=1-2-ent
YOU CAN FIND BUY LINKS TO JOSELYN'S BOOKS AT HER AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE :)