FINDING BALANCE

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January 20th, 2010

Some days, finding a balanced day is easy. One child behaves the other gets in trouble. Or the house gets cleaned but the oven stopped working in the middle of cooking dinner.

If we’re lucky, occasionally we will get days that we are happy to see out of balance. Our wedding day, a baby’s first steps, seeing your child graduate from college (or kindergarten, I’m not picky).  These are the days we never forget.

But other days, the lack of balance swings to the opposite end of the spectrum. Today was one of those “other” days. I’ll spare you the boring details, but I was certain the only way that both yin and yang could find equal measure was for there to be an e-mail from an agent stating they loved my book and already had a publisher in mind who would certainly snatch it up first thing in the morning. (I know, if it were only that simple.) However, something else happened. I opened my e-mail to find a mystery.

An agency I’ve heard wonderful things about was following me on Twitter. I don’t know how they found me, or who at their agency chose to follow me. But this knowledge that someone out in the wide world of publishing was interested in me as a writer, even if it were only for a moment, was enough to turn the tide of my day.

If Rolling Stones sang about it, it must be true. “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might just find you get what you need.”

And yes, I did send the agency an e-mail tonight, asking if they’d be interested in representing CRUSH AT THOMAS HALL.

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