A lot has happened, Pt 2

So, I made it onto #WriteNow

My face is on the Penguin website. I was in The Bookseller, and on Penguin’s YouTube page.

I don’t even know what to say and I have a hard time even thinking this is real. I have bad anxiety, and between this and the baby (yah I’m six months’ pregnant by the way) I keep thinking that some disaster will happen, that something will come and bring me back down to reality. I can’t allow myself to succumb to that, and I think part of my reservations towards the #WriteNow win is pregnancy hormones messing up my already fragile mental health.

But I am happy, and I am grateful. I never thought I would get published this way. I assumed I would follow the path of the other writers I admire: get a few rejections, receive that one golden letter, rocket to stardom. Instead, the journey has been over two years, loads of disappointments, lots of money spent on agent 1:1s and masterclasses, 20 form rejections with no feedback, and lots of unhelpful advice that made me consider shelving the project altogether. Now I know that there is more than one way to get published, and multiple paths to traditional book deals. I hope that this writing blog has been helpful to anyone in the same boat, and I will continue to post #WriteNow updates until TWENTY-NINETEEN in is my hands.

But thank you for reading along, and thank you the support you have shown since I started this site. I am so thankful.