Tick tock goes the clock.  Still waiting to hear from my contact.  Hoping that no news means good news, but who knows?  My check-in lady has always replied promptly, so I do not know what is up. The good news is that today my friend (the manager) at Staples showed me how to be able to work, and enable editing, with future emails, or documents, that my publisher may send as we are ironing things out.  It’s fun to await and anticipate the next stages: their editorial evaluation or assessment (though I will not need one), front and back book cover design (thinkstock image), interior formatting and design, including chapter setup, spacing, font selection.  So again, very stoked.  Hoping and praying they allow me to use the manuscript I resent Thursday, reformatted and touched up.  I changed just enough words in it to make me desire to use that draft.

Great day with our children but had ample time to work. As always, not enough, but God is good. He gives us strength. Anyway, I am on step 7 of 7 in this writing process. I never thought this moment would arrive. This seventh step may take awhile – submitting the manuscript to the publisher and book design and promo opportunities through another outlet – but thankful to get going on it.