My Book!

Well it's official. I've finished writing my first novel. It took me forever, which is sad since most writers can whip out three books a year (or more) and this one took me about seven years. In my defense, I hadn't been working on it seriously until last month. The funny thing is it took me 7 years to finish the first half and one month to finish the second half... that shows you what a little dedication will do. So I've gone through the whole thing and edited (the first half needed some major reworking since I wrote some of that back in my freshman year of high school) and now my mom is editing it again. She's up to page 70 so not too far to go. I know of a publishing company that is accepting manuscripts from new authors and their main focus is young adult fiction (which just happens to be what my book is). So I'm pretty excited to send it to them... though they did say it could take 3 months to even get to the point where they read it but I'm not too concerned. I've waited 7 years I can wait a few more months. I know it's really hard to get published so I don't expect too much, but there is this binding company down in Lindon so if all else fails I can at least get my book in book form. Either way, I'm very excited and if it ever does get published I hope everyone will go get a copy :)
~Shannen