![]() Bloomsbury subsequently rejected The Start of Something, as did four other editors my agent submitted to. To score such a positive response on my first editorial submission was surely a sign of great things to come! ![]() It seemed to me that even if Bloomsbury ultimately weren’t interested, another publisher soon would be. ![]() The editor hadn’t quite finished reading my manuscript yet but said, “At this point I’d say we are really interested and do need a little more time.”Īs you can imagine, I was over the moon. My agent began to send book one, The Start of Something, out to New York editors and the first reply we received was from Bloomsbury. I also had two finished sequels ready to go, bringing my tally of completed books up to three at that time. After a year or two of querying I’d landed a literary agent and diligently revised my first YA novel (aptly titled The Start of Something) for them. There was a moment back in 2002 when I believed things were truly starting to happen for me in publishing. 99-in which I asked authors the question: What was your turning point as a writer? Here is YA author C.K. ![]() This guest post is part of the Turning Points blog series here on distraction no. ![]()
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