I DID IT!!!

Wheew!

I said I would make contact with an agent by the end of this week, and here I am, sending all my information to an agent in California at about 11:50 on a Saturday night.

I have to say it feels SO GOOD to have it sent! I don't know what will happen from here, but I am so proud of taking a step!

For the past two days I worked hard to edit my query letter, polish my sample chapters and finish my book proposal. It was a lot of work, but I am so proud of it. I am surprised by how I feel--I thought I would feel inadequate. I feel so much more professional now that I have a thirty-page package about my book!

As I was sending it, I realized today is the 26th. Twenty-six is a magical number in my book. I was twenty-six years old when I did something new every week for a year. Twenty-six is a year (52 weeks) divided in half. There are twenty-six postures in Bikram yoga. A marathon is 26.2 miles. There are 26.2 chapters in my book.

And today is my niece's birthday! She was born on the twenty-sixth. That is a part of my book. It's important because her birth--exactly a week early--may have saved my life.

I am so grateful to be getting the wheels moving, and for all the people who believe in this book and have given me endless support and love along the way.

Deep breath . . .