Quote: I want the dr's to just cut the damn gland out all together, which they can do, but H is like 'NO!'
Sounds like the man has some ideas in mind!
I've begun to wonder if your confident egg donation was the very thing that might help you two to be freed from that past loss of your child. Your book and law school enrollment both are wonderful steps that communicate you are moving on as well.
Well I always knew it would hurt, and more so because I'm not 'healthy' reproductively.
It will help in the long-term, I just get so BAD TEMPERED when I'm in pain, that I crash temporarily.
H is scared I'll get serious complications from surgery as I did after DD1 was born and could have died. Plus he says I might develop scar tissue which might ruin things sexually for me. Don't know why he's so bothered, he's not even here
I'm normal again now.
Had an okay day. The publisher is checking the sex scenes and strong language in my book.
I hope he doesn't want to edit loads - but I have final say on the editing anyway. He said he is 'very interested' and that they have done other books with adult themes so it shouldn't be a problem.
I am adjusting a couple of the sex scenes as per your request! Will do that tonight and then email the publisher tomorrow.
Took DD4 for her first proper session at nursery school. It felt really weird walking out without her. I got some of my orders done while she was there.
I was asleep this morning and DD4 dumped my post on my head, LOL.
I got a REALLY GOOD review from an editor at one of the 3 publisher's looking at my book. I have been accepted by 2 out of the 3, and still waiting to hear from the third publisher.
Here's what they said:
BOOK REVIEW:
The first thing that struck the reader is that everyone must remember that a novel takes every reader differently - it is the accuracy, the truth of the narrative or the authorial voice. This extraordinary story has creative authority.
This is a situation we have imagined, or met - or at least seen passing. It doesn't take away from the artistic truth of the book; it is a very effectively presented chunk of real life that sings with authenticity, in the voice of its participant.
This is a narrative of the joys and tragedies of today and of the always achingly difficult relations between man and woman, but it is not a story of desperation but of overcoming, a theme which could appear hackneyed were it not redeemed by the finally sympathetic characters of the writer and of 'Peter', that hold the narrative together. It is personal drama that succeeds in communication.
Joanna takes the reader into a powerfully real world. The tone is intimate and conversational and has the strong voice of personal authentic experience.
It is from personal experience and observation that the novelist creates a world of imagination, where, as in this book, the characters move and behave in keeping with the novelist's rules of engagement. But this is more than that; this is experience directly transformed into art; it is an art object that one feels has almost come about accidently, like something found.
At 500 pages, Joanna gives herself the space fully to explore and develop her theme and finally, to bring us, the reader, with her and Peter, to a good satisfactory closure. - Mark Sykes, Editor in Chief.
That was a great review and I'm not surprised you would cry to read it. I can't wait to read the book. That is just so wonderful. WHOOOOOOOOOOOO HHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
Jo, your book sounds amazing. Just from the little you posted, the book got my interest going. I have never read a romance/tragedy book.
Amazing how the reviewers can write compared to me. (and behave in keeping with the novelist's rules of engagement) I wish I had half the imagination to experss what is there.
I've been looking at the report all day, in total shock (NICE shock). I am so excited, I want to tell H, but of course I am supposed to be 'grey' so I'm not doing non-essential contact at the moment.
It has taken all my strength not to call him. He didn't really like the idea of the book but now it's happening, I challenge even him not to be impressed!
My friends are amazed and keep saying if I get rich, can they move in with me, LOL.
I LOVED the way that editor worded it, especially the 'experience transformed into art' bit - that is SO flattering! I am even more flattered because he's a male reader and I was obviously writing from a female perspective so for him to think it was an 'extraordinary story' is so great.
Gabriel reviewed a small page sample of it as well and his remarks are going on it, so watch out, Gabe, you will be famous! (hey, your W will definitely want you then ).
They reckon publication will take 6 or 7 months so I'm looking at Christmas or New Year as a release date.
It will be available in the US as well as here.
Be careful, though, some scenes are VERY distressing and it has stuff like rape, domestic violence, self-harm and things like that as well as the court drama. Plus the romance is VERY romantic, i.e, graphic sex scenes and some strong language.
It is all true; it's my life, but it isn't for the faint hearted or those of you who get extremely upset easily - so just take author's friendly warning before purchase!
Of course, I want you all to buy one so then I can buy a bigger house, LOL.
I ended it with the ILY thing that I told you about on here. Thought that was a nice way to end a book.
I myself am a romance novel junkie.I gave them up after stbx left.I sometimes pass by them in the bookstore and think someday I will start to read them again.But romance is hard to read when the bomb first hit.Now I think I will save myself for your book.I will make that my first novel.By the time it comes out I will be ready to read again.
Besides I'm really tired of self help books.I have helped myself enough.
Congrates girl you did good.
Later Friend. Briget
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Treat hate with Love... DR. Martin Luther King
I am even more flattered because he's a male reader and I was obviously writing from a female perspective so for him to think it was an 'extraordinary story' is so great.