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Okay. As you know, I've been busy trying to get my book published. It hasn't been going so well. I lost the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The first agent I sent it to [Jodi Reamer] rejected me. Then I sent it to another agent- Kristin Nelson. I sent my query letter w/synopsis to her, not really expecting to get a good response. [After the first few rejections, it's a bit difficult to be too optimistic.]

I've been [a bit obsessively] checking my email ever since, just wanting to get the rejection out of the way so I could have the OK to send it somewhere else if I needed to. So, I checked my email a few minutes ago.

She requested the first 30 pages! I'm so excited!