Back and Better: A Full Manuscript Review

So I realize it has been a while since my last substantial blog post (my bad), but I have excuses. First off, I went camping. Second off, extended family visited. Third off, I got my full manuscript back. And it wasn’t pretty. But it wasn’t ugly, either. In fact, it wasn’t much of anything, which was the problem. I guess I should have expected a form rejection since that’s what most writers get back, but I had foolishly harbored hopes that a few helpful suggestions might accompany the bad news. No such luck. Not so much as a half sentence of advice. What’s a writer to do?

Naturally, I got discouraged…as in, I didn’t even want to look at the written word for a whole two weeks. The Self-appointed Inspector of Words took a long hiatus as the Self-appointed Inspector of Grey’s Anatomy, chocolate, and whipped cream. I especially appreciated the episode where a discouraged writer was admitted for surgery because he ate his novel that nobody wanted to read. Hah! Tempting…

Instead of eating my novel, I eventually chose the healthier and cheaper route of discarding the unwanted manuscript under my bed for dust collection. This worked well until my brother caught wind of my decision and forwarded me an article about self-publishing kindle ebooks through Amazon. To make a long story short, here it is!