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My Book Deal Moment by Kate Forster

By Novelicious

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.

Kate ForsterMy agent rang to ask me if I would go and see a publisher that afternoon. I was in bed at the time, wallowing in depression, which I was trying to recover from.

I jumped out of bed, showered, changed and was in the car in a New York minute.

Then I met with the publisher and we chatted as though the meeting was no big deal.

At the end of the meeting, she asked me what I wanted, and I answered, ‘A career.’

And then I went home.

Nothing happened.

My agent told me to be patient, which she knows isn’t a particular strength of mine. So I was patiently impatient.

After a month I figured it wasn’t going to happen with this particular publisher, and while I was disappointed, it only served to make me more determined.

This was what I wanted as my career; that much I was sure of, as I had book ideas pouring from me.

Then my agent rang, ‘Be near your phone, we might have a deal.’

So I strapped my phone to my ear with sticky tape and went about my day, ignoring the strange looks, they wouldn’t look at me like that when they knew I was going to be published, I justified to myself.

Then at 5.45pm, after business hours, I got the call with a two-book deal, which was exciting because things were tough in 2009, and according to the powers that be, two book deals were almost unheard of.

I accepted, and there I was, an author.

And then I cooked dinner, because first come book deals, next comes Cottage Pie.

My first international book deal was super exciting, as this was the news I had an offer from the UK. It was a long, formal, very eloquent letter from my now publisher about why she wanted to publish my work, and I felt so thrilled, I did a little dance in the office where I worked at the time.

And then I went home and did the washing, because first comes international book deals, and then come the washing.

Life is equal parts mundane and exciting but I do have that career I dreamed about and still so many ideas for books.

Picture Perfect by Kate Forster is out now.

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