This is a departure, a step towards something exciting and new. I'm in the process of getting my first book published. Well, okay, it's a novella, and all that's happened so far is that an editor has read it and emailed me to say she is interested in publishing it if I was willing to change the ending.
Pause. Change the ending? Really? I kinda liked the ending. On the other hand, I'm a total newbie, and figure I'm open to constructive input. But I was still clutching, at least until I talked with Shel, one of my beta readers (and sister....who happens to live in LA and work in the entertainment industry). She pointed out that I'd given it a real Hollywood ending, with the heroine giving up her source of power when she met a good man. Ick. I did that? Oops.
So I emailed the editor today and proposed a different ending, couching it in terms that suggest I'd still be open for suggestion. And then I checked my email about 7000 times. I keep telling myself to drop it off a cliff, be happy they liked it enough to email back, and what will be will be. And I'll tell myself that again after I go check my email.....
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