Big News!

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Hey everyone! 

Mrs. Paper Pony here.

I wanted to let you all know that we received some huge news today that already has and will continue to affect our business.

You see, I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was 15 years old. I've written a lot of book but none of them have managed to find me an agent...until now!

That's right! I am so proud to announce that I am now represented by Nikki Terpilowski of Holloway Literary for a young adult fantasy novel I wrote!

For those of you that want the short story, there it is! What this means for our shadowboxes is that it may take us longer to get to them because I am trying to balance a third job between my day job, papercrafting and writing!

For those of you that are interested in the longer journey, here you go:

I have written six books before the one that landed me an agent. I've been trying to break into the publishing world for over 10 years (I started writing when I was 15 and am now 26).

I have been querying my manuscript for over a year, which is long even by publishing standards, but due to other unforeseen circumstances, I still hadn't found the right person to represent me.

But they say that when you find the right person, things happen fast. I queried the Holloway Literary on March 12th. The very next week, I got a request for a partial (the first 50 pages). The week after that (which was Megacon for those of you keeping track), I got a request for a full. Then, on April 1st (yeah, that's right, April Fools), I received an offer of representation!

This doesn't mean that I have a book coming out. I still have to go through editing and submissions to editors, who might reject me all over again. But this does mean that there is someone in the publishing world who believes me and fell in love with my characters as much as I did! This is the first major hurdle in a long road to publication!

So what I want to say is sometimes things don't work out at all like you expect them to. The road to finding an agent is long, treacherous and feels oh-so-lonely sometimes. But if you keep pushing, if you believe in yourself (and have others that believe in you when you can't), your dreams really will come true. The only way you can fail is not to try at all.

Here's to wishing that all of your dreams come true too, whatever they are. They can. I promise!