Sue
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Lori Foster:
Hi Lori, you know I'm one if your biggest fans and along with being a fellow coffee lover! :) What I was wondering is..what did you do to celebrate you got your first book published? What went through your mind besides being excited that what you really wanted to do for a career was truly happening? <3
Lori Foster
Hi Sue,
It took me so long to sell, and it was such a grueling process, that I don't remember celebrating so much as just being hugely relieved. I'd been writing and submitting for over 5 years, and had completed more than 10 books before I finally sold one. The particular book that sold, Impetuous, had been rewritten for editors twice - first for an editor who wanted me to take out the male point of view, but then that editor was moved and the new editor wanted me to put in male point of view. :-P
This was all pre-computers, so I had to retype the entire thing at least twice on a regular typewriter. I'm a fast typist, but a very slow re-typer.
Like I said - a grueling process!
By the time I sold, I mostly just wanted to prove that I could.
The 2nd book wasn't much easier, the 3rd and 4th got reversed in order - that is, the editor wanted to put my 4th book as my 3rd, etc... And not long after that I wrote the Buckhorn series and *finally* got some traction going. (In my mind, I thank for readers for that at least once a day!)
I've always tended to be an explicit writer, but back with my earliest books I couldn't even say "holy cow" because that was too taboo. So it was a strain for me.
Every book was a learning process and nothing in publishing is ever guaranteed, so to this day, I don't really celebrate so much as I constantly reevaluate my career. Oh, and hubby and I have been together a long time. Our idea of celebrating is dinner at a family restaurant and a matinee movie. ;-) We do that on a regular basis anyway, so...
I think if I ever make #1 on the NYTimes, or if a book was ever made into a movie, maybe then I'd really celebrate. But who knows? I'm not really a "celebrate" type person. For me, every day is special.
Thanks for asking!
It took me so long to sell, and it was such a grueling process, that I don't remember celebrating so much as just being hugely relieved. I'd been writing and submitting for over 5 years, and had completed more than 10 books before I finally sold one. The particular book that sold, Impetuous, had been rewritten for editors twice - first for an editor who wanted me to take out the male point of view, but then that editor was moved and the new editor wanted me to put in male point of view. :-P
This was all pre-computers, so I had to retype the entire thing at least twice on a regular typewriter. I'm a fast typist, but a very slow re-typer.
Like I said - a grueling process!
By the time I sold, I mostly just wanted to prove that I could.
The 2nd book wasn't much easier, the 3rd and 4th got reversed in order - that is, the editor wanted to put my 4th book as my 3rd, etc... And not long after that I wrote the Buckhorn series and *finally* got some traction going. (In my mind, I thank for readers for that at least once a day!)
I've always tended to be an explicit writer, but back with my earliest books I couldn't even say "holy cow" because that was too taboo. So it was a strain for me.
Every book was a learning process and nothing in publishing is ever guaranteed, so to this day, I don't really celebrate so much as I constantly reevaluate my career. Oh, and hubby and I have been together a long time. Our idea of celebrating is dinner at a family restaurant and a matinee movie. ;-) We do that on a regular basis anyway, so...
I think if I ever make #1 on the NYTimes, or if a book was ever made into a movie, maybe then I'd really celebrate. But who knows? I'm not really a "celebrate" type person. For me, every day is special.
Thanks for asking!
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