BANG… did you hear that?

That was the sound of me shooting myself in the foot… or was it?

If you have been following my writing/editing/querying/going insane process, you will know one of two things… I am crazy… and I just spent three months perfecting my query. Okay maybe 2 months 29 days… but still.

You might also know that I submitted my novel, THE RINGS OF TIME, to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.

*please hold your applause till the end*

Yes, I do plan to win because it’s a good novel. At least I think so, and the thirty other beta readers that have read it.

Ahem, but how could I have shot myself in the foot. Well, let’s start with the negative side of this. My hands are now tied with a nice little red bow. I frankly like the bow and know it won’t be long until it will be part of a gift wrapping. Whether it be for Penguin books or another lucky publisher, I know my book will see the press. So while my hands are wrapped with (holding THE RINGS OF TIME) with a nice pretty bow… I can do nothing with the novel.

So… either I have inadvertently shot myself in the foot… or I did it on purpose and it’s a good thing. Which do you think?

Because the publishing industry is much like the Military, “Hurry up and wait…” I think it’s a good thing. My story isn’t pivotal to this moment in time. It’s timeless and in five month’s will be just as pertinent to the fantasy industry… In fact, it gives me more time to work on a synopsis, since I may need one eventually (what a pain in the patookis). It gives me more time to plot and actually began the third in the series… because two is being edited right now out of my hands. And it gives me more time to seek out that perfect agent… cuzz one is out there. A few I have my eyes on and they are such pleasant representatives of the field and they make me smile.

Though, in all actuality I think that THE RINGS OF TIME will win the contest and this won’t matter. No, not arrogant, just hopeful. I love my work… as I should. I know it will be published and that is not arrogance that is faith and believing in a dream.

If I win the contest, I think I will faint dead on the spot. Maybe even die… because there are up to 5,000 other entries from authors whose work probably is just as awesome as mine (note I didn’t say better… gotta keep it real.. HAHAHA!). But here is the dilemma, if I die… the third book won’t even see the light of day. So maybe I should get to work.

But I have goals… Gah! Finish Runaway Choices (My Urban ChickLit Fantasy), finish some more of the Unseen Chronicles (Which you can read as Serial Fiction at the top link under UNSEEN CHRONICLES oddly enough)… then and only then… am I released to write Mandorian Prophecies 3. Must have priorities.

So, what was the BANG we heard, if it wasn’t me shooting myself in the foot? Why it was the door of course… The door closed to the judging room for the contest and it has not begun.

Hurry up and wait… I am used to it.

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