So I think everything is finalized and announcement ready:  I have an agent.

YES!!!!  YES!!!!  I finally have an agent, something I’ve been passionately and continually submitting for (and getting supported and rejected) for YEARS.  Three years, continuously.  I dabbled before that, submitting and then hermiting myself and then coming back.  Since I graduated from a Masters program in Creative Writing, I’ve been constantly submitting to agents with three different novels. First was the high fantasy novel that I worked on during grad school; the novel was well received but had no significant interest.  Second was DIARY OF A TEENAGE MURDERESS, which was really well received; one agent was willing to undergo revisions with me, two more were really really interested, and two were actually still considering it.

Then came SCARLET, this strange little book that I wrote in three months like something was grabbing onto me.  I did some very basic grammatical line edits to it, but nothing major.   I started sending it out, and within three weeks, I had an agent.

That’s compared to the 14 months I spent shopping DIARY around, and the two years or so that I spent with the high fantasy.

YEAH.  What’s that about?

I mean, SCARLET is different; it felt easy and fast to write, and everything just flowed; trusting my instincts or what have you.  So in that sense, I think the manuscript is my best yet, so on the one hand, it makes sense for it to be snapped up so quickly.  But to me, this all seems pretty magical right now.

Especially since my agent, Minju Chang of Bookstop Literary Agency (I’m sorry, did I just say I have an AGENT?!?!) was one of EIGHT agents that were considering the full manuscript.  When she asked to represent me, it was just so incredibly exciting because it really feels like I’ve found an agent with the same amount of passion and enthusiasm (and happy-dancing) that I have for these books and this career.

Which all around is kind of…..WHOOOOOO!!!!!!

WHOO WHOO WHOOO WHOOOOOO!!!!

::off to happy dance some more::

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