Published Author
So get this. It looks like I’m being published. In something other than Bactroid.net. A real book even. Some of you might be familiar with KnitLit and KnitLit Too. Both are collections of knitting-related stories, books that you can buy in real brick-and-mortar bookstores. Not long after I wrote Problem Skeins, I decided to submit it for the next volume of KnitLit just to see what happened. I didn’t really feel like I stood much of a chance of actually making it into the book. A week or so after I submitted my manuscript, I got the standard publishing reply that my manuscript had been received and that they would consider it for publication but they receive many times more submissions than they have space for and…blah blah blah. That was months ago. I just got back from lunch today and saw a message in my email inbox asking me to sign paperwork granting them non-exclusive rights to publish.
The editors said there’s a roughly two percent chance that the publishers might cut any particular story to save space, but they want to pay me for my story and send me a complimentary copy of the book. Now there’s something to show my parents. See, I’m not wasting my life. I’m an honest-to-God writer.