Thomas and I celebrated our anniversary last Saturday. Something you might find interesting is we married eleven months and three days after our first date. No, I wasn’t pregnant, lol—our first born didn’t come until several years later. Actually, I still had two years left of college when we said, “I do”—I was only twenty-one at the time.
Someone told me at a writers’ conference a couple years ago that every author needs three things in order to get published: (1) Talent. (2) Persistence. (3) Luck. I’ve never forgotten that, especially now that I’m querying. Talent, I think I have—at least several people have told me I’m a good writer. Persistence, yes. Luck…I have to admit, I haven’t felt too lucky recently.
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland fan, and one of the things Thomas gave me for my last birthday was a “Drink Me” necklace with some little, white crystals in the bottle—hey, check out the pic…there it is! It quickly became a fun staple to my wardrobe, but unbeknownst me, there was a magical discovery waiting to be made.