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Which she didn’t like. And as strange as it seems, it was then I knew I’d be able to work with her. Because she was expanding her list but she wasn’t just taking everything that came her way. So I had another book and I sent her that one and she loved it.

That was in April of 2006. That book? Well she pitched it and New York wasn’t having it. Not one bit. But EC picked it up and it became Ascension. Which has been my best selling ebook to date. Again, I think it happened that way for a reason, although at the time, I wasn’t so pleased editors in NY didn’t want it, LOL.

It wasn’t that up until that point writing had been easy for me, I work hard. I had a baby and two other children, only one was in school and I had to write at night around their schedules. For several years I lived on less sleep so I could write. I wrote in notebooks while I waited at the doctor's office and for whatever brief moments I could scare up. But I can’t complain. Writing is a joy to me. It's my dream and I am so fortunate to be able to live it. I sold books to EC and to Samhain and they sold well and readers seemed to enjoy them. I was building a solid reader base and things had been moving at a decent clip in my life.

I set my mind to something and worked hard and it happened. Which is how I was raised to believe things worked. But publishing doesn’t always work that way. Because publishing is about something more than hard work and writing books people want to read. Publishing is part magic.

Here’s the thing, I am so NOT one of those people who refers to Mercury in retrograde or to astrological signs. I’m not putting those who do down, but it’s not really part of my make up. But in truth, there’s this, for wont of a better term, luck/fate/magic aspect with publishing. It’s all about the right manuscript, the right editor and the right time.

Even a control freak like me can’t make that happen. It happens how it happens and no amount of impatience, of anger or blues or excitement can force it.

So Laura pitched my books and they went nowhere. I had lots of nice words about them, several near misses and then finally, when I was beginning to wonder if I was cut out for this whole agent/New York business – she sold a novella to Spice.