So I’ve been in touch with a few agents. One of them requested my stuff, so I emailed it to her. She emailed me back to say she liked the beginning and she’d let me know the rest. Fast, cheap, effective.
The other guy wants it snail mailed. I hate that. It’s expensive. Not only in paper, but postage. And time. My home printer is only good for about 400 pages. That’s one book. Meaning I have to email my book to a copy center (my CD thingy no longer opens thanks to son #2), load up my kids, drive there, unload my kids. Help the counter lady find the document while trying to keep my kids from using a packet of stickers. We finally get the right document printing when wham, paper jam. Now I’m trying to fish the paper out of the printer and figure out which pages I’ve lost so I can reprint them.
I look over to see my children arguing over whether or not the TV in the kids room is really broken.
It is.
At this point, I want to say, “Will someone please take care of their children!” Instead, I go tell my children to be quiet.
For this joyous and educational outing, I pay around 10 bucks.
But we aren’t done yet, folks.
Now we get to load up the kids, go to the post office, unload the kids. Stand in line . Restack all the boxes the two year old pulls down because he wants to make a fort out of them. Then we pay for the postage (5 bucks), load the kids back in the car, drive home, unload the kids and fall onto the couch.
Five minutes later, my husband walks through the door and asks why I haven’t vacuumed yet.
Can I make a passionate plea to agents and editors everywhere? Email. For the love of all things holy and right. Email.
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