Looking forward to reading your first novel! I enjoy your writing about the trials of getting published by a company as opposed to independently doing so. It is realistic. My first piece was a case study to a medical journal that was asking sonographers to write and that they had mentors. I submitted, after a period of time got a rejection letter. I wrote back for details, and she said their reviewers and those comments are private! I persisted and got handwritten reviews with the names covered, I asked for my originals sonograms and finally they sent them to me. A year or so later I meant a sonographer who has been in the field since the mid-sixties, well known and published. I told her what happened, and she offered to read it, co-author with with me and get it in a journal she was currently chief editor of- it worked, and it was my start. It took a few years, a chance meeting at a conference and the rest is history...
Looking forward to reading your first novel! I enjoy your writing about the trials of getting published by a company as opposed to independently doing so. It is realistic. My first piece was a case study to a medical journal that was asking sonographers to write and that they had mentors. I submitted, after a period of time got a rejection letter. I wrote back for details, and she said their reviewers and those comments are private! I persisted and got handwritten reviews with the names covered, I asked for my originals sonograms and finally they sent them to me. A year or so later I meant a sonographer who has been in the field since the mid-sixties, well known and published. I told her what happened, and she offered to read it, co-author with with me and get it in a journal she was currently chief editor of- it worked, and it was my start. It took a few years, a chance meeting at a conference and the rest is history...