Only time will tell. The first time I went through this, it was with a book that wasn't ready, a predatory publisher at a time when I didn't know what to watch out for, and too little experience.
I took some time off after going through all of that heartbreak. I wrote a lot of short stories. Some got published. A lot didn't. But with each one, I learned more and more about the process. Acceptances came with editing that taught me even more.
Now I've rewritten that book two more times and made more changes to it than I can count. This past year I've had a professional editor working on it for me and that is helping me learn even more about the writing process.
I'll never be the best writer there is. (There never will be one-nobody's perfect). There are good writers, and that's what I'm hoping to be.
My book will be ready for querying in the near future, as soon as I finish working through the final edits. Hopefully I'll find an agent who likes it enough to represent me and shop it out to publishers.
That would be the dream. I started this book with the goal of giving disabled people like me the chance to see themselves as the main character. Not just a side character in the story, but the main character, the one who gets the magical power, the one who battles it out with the villain. That's important. And there are some other forms of representation in my book too.
I'm really hoping as a disabled LGBTQ author that the agents who say they're looking to represent marginalized authors and stories really mean it. Because that's important too. We deserve to tell our stories and to have our audience be not just those who deserve to see themselves represented, but everyone, who should understand that the hero can be anyone.
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