Yes, it's finally happened!!

I wrote Eye of Leomander back when I was 13 years old. My father was my editor and my mother was my proof-reader. Throughout the years, I would take it out of the drawer and revised it, hoping one day the opportunity would come along to publish it. When I got married 10 years later, my husband read the manuscript and thought it was great. He urged me to publish it. So, I sent out query letters to many publishers, but received no responses. I think that was worse than receiving rejections--at least I would know they read the letter and the sample chapters! I got discouraged and stopped. A few years later, after our son was born, I tried again with the query letters, and heard nothing back. My husband had suggested subsidiary publishing, but that was way out of our price range.

I never gave up my dream to publish this book--I just didn't know how to do it.

Then, last year, I saw an advertisement in the window of the dry cleaners. It read at the top "Attention Writers". Literally, I stopped in my tracks, dry cleaning in hand, and read the ad. It was a seminar for writers to help them get published. A few weeks later,  I went to the seminar and got talking with Maryanna Young of Aloha Publishing. She read my sample chapters, liked them and agreed to work with me. Yes, I am a writer, not just in my mind!

Now, I am so proud to say that finally, Eye of Leomander is seeing the light of day and is available on Amazon.com!!!!!

This journey has re-awakened my writings, for example this weekly blog. Also, I am working on a prequel to Eye of Leomander. However, I don't think that will be sitting in a drawer for the next 20 plus years!