Heather Foeh

Okay, not really. (Well, yes twice really - but that was thankfully a long time ago and I’d rather not do it again at my age.) But I have given birth to my manuscript. I finished all of the revisions on Thursday night and I’m so glad that I took the time to work hard on them before sending it off to Michelle Grajkowski. I think the story has a better flow now, the point of view issues have been taken care of, the “mystery” is a bit more sneaky, and Alex speaks more like a man. I owe tremendous thanks to Michelle McGinnis and Kate Williams for being such wonderful critiquers.

I finished at 9:30 on Thursday night and I wanted to cry - both with relief and with a little bit of sadness. Yesterday (Friday) morning I printed out all 257 pages (60,389 words), wrote my cover letter, bound it all up in a non-rip envelope then took it to the post office. It’s now winging its way to Wisconsin — let the waiting begin!

Finally I can let the new manuscript rattle around in my brain freely. I’ve been tamping it down until this other one was outta here. Hooray! It’s time to be pregnant again.