I Pushed the Button!

I Pushed the Button!

My desk is a mess and so is my house. Laundry is waiting to be washed and dried and there's a storm coming, but we're celebrating tonight!

?Today's blog is about the less glamorous but equally satisfying journey to get to the point of pushing the button to send my manuscript on its way to becoming a book. The photo shows my first printed version for my editor.

?The deadline I'd set to submit my manuscript was October 15th. I'd been getting my illustrations ready and had to do some major changes because I'd created them in CANVA just over a year ago. Imagine a circle and then about 24 small graphics placed one by one around that circle. Add text and arrows and a title. Then imagine changing those graphics. It's very picky, time consuming work causing my right shoulder to seize up. Then because I'd changed the illustrations,... READ MORE

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