Hold The Phone, I Got The Call

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Hi. What are y’all up to? Nothing? Oh ok. How was your day? Mine was good…Oh yeah, an agent offered.

Wait, what?

Oh yeah, an agent offered.

 

YES! I GOT THE CALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean OMYGOODNESS I GOT THE CALL!!!

 

I got an offer of representation! Could I BE any happier? (Yes, I’m channeling Chandler Bing now and I don’t care.)

So, yesterday I told you I had the string of email conversations with a dream agent ending in “I’ll finish up with the materials and get back to you shortly.”  And I was like, “What does shortly mean!?” And I talked to people and they were like, “I think it means ’shortly.’” And I analyzed and analyzed thinking it was a bad sign.

I’d been hanging out in the AW purgatory thread, commiserating with other waiting writers who were AWESOME by the way. And today, I’m in the middle of posting how on edge I was about the “shortly” thing when BAM!

212 shows up on my phone.

I’m thinking: that’s NYC. But I didn’t want to think that because it made me want to hurl. But I pulled it together (I think pretty well) and answered the phone calmly-ish.

And it was HIM!

I was shaking, but I hope my voice wasn’t. I hadn’t prepared any questions because I didn’t want to jinx it, but I remembered stuff I’d been thinking of and he had great insight. We talked and he so GOT Scout. Which was awesome. I was really pumped with the places he saw it going and he seemed oh so nice.

I am beyond excited and just want to celebrate. I called my parents and Nate. Nate STILL hasn’t answered his phone. What the heck?

I haven’t accepted the offer yet as I still have other agents to talk to. It was very fun sending out the email with the message in caps OFFER OF REPRESENTATION. One of the agents got back to me pronto which was great. And she wants to still consider and will get back to me Tuesday. She said she just started looking and said she loved it.

I am having a lot of fun right now. A LOT!

 

I promise I will resume my more substantive posting soon, but I had to shout it from the proverbial mountain tops–my blog. (Oh yeah, and in my facebook status, of course.)

 

To find out who my new super agent is, click here!

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