Still waiting for Inkshares’ to tell us they’re ready to move forward, but this isn’t about that. Instead,  I know that a lot of my warriors are aspiring authors, and I wanted to give you a couple of old links to my blog that says a little bit of what The Last Faoii has been through before it got to this point. It’s been through some dark places and incredibly rough patches, and I wanted to share those with you so you don’t lose hope in your own progress. Hang in there.

The first is a post from 2 years ago today, when I got my LAST rejection letter from an agent. By this point in the process, I’d learned what my original manuscript’s flaws were, but I had dug myself too deep a hole to get back out. Thus ended the traditional querying stage. I thought I had given up there. I started a new book and put Faoii on a shelf where it was supposed to gather dust until I died. Obviously, that’s not what happened.

The second post is from about 6 months ago. It gives an overview of EVERY STEP that brought me here. It is long, and filled with moments when I failed, miserably. But it still ended with me being here, ready to finally publish through Inkshares and checking my inbox twice a day to see if it’s my turn in the queue. I know that I’m not quite published yet, but unless someone pulls the rug out from under me this time (which has happened a few times already in The Last Faoii’s production) this should be the light at the end of the tunnel. Do you see why I tell you not to give up if it’s important to you? 

Shield up, Faoii. You’ll make it.