Publication Day!

About the same time that I started writing Anna’s F-Plan I started my ‘Peaks, Polaroids and Prosecco’ challenge. So a peak, a polaroid and Prosecco was the perfect way for me to celebrate my Publication Day.

I was so excited as I stood at the foot of the very first mountain I had climbed in the Mournes.

We set off on the short climb to the top.

Two years ago, I had huffed and puffed, staggered and stumbled my way to the summit and today was no different!

There had been too few peaks as I was preparing for publication. My lungs, legs and muscles were all suffering as a result of too much time spent sitting on my bottom editing but I bravely battled on, until finally I reached the top!

Where gale force winds were blowing.

I wanted my book to fly off the shelves, not off a mountain!

It was October 25th. I had climbed a peak, taken a Polaroid and popped the Prosecco to celebrate the publication of my book.

It was the perfect day!

Book Authors’ Bible

How do I get published? I asked God and Google for help.

My plea and prayers were answered when up popped the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook on the screen in front of me.

The quote on the front cover promised to unlock the door to the world of publishing. Hallelujah!

It was full of hope and helpful articles on how to submit to literary agents and publishers, whose names and addresses were all listed.

This was fantastic!

All I had to do now was choose which lucky literary agent/ publisher was going to have the privilege of publishing my book.

Decisions, decisions….

Finally finished!

After writing my book I took a self-congratulatory tour to Smugsville. Where I continued to pat myself on the back and praise myself for having finally finished my first novel.

I had written 90,000+ words. That was a lot! I’d arranged them into neat little sentences that I then had turned into paragraphs and proceeded to position perfectly on over 300 pages.

I was an author! Yay!

Soon I would be a New York Times best-selling author!

Soon I would be hanging out with JK Rowling.

Soon Stephen Spielberg would be on the phone wanting to buy the film rights.

Very soon I realised that for any of that to happen my book had to be on a bookshelf, in a bookstore and not on the desk in front of me!

Very, very soon I realised I had no idea how I was going to get it there!