Prill,congratulations on your book!

I agree with Dots in that we can relate to late bloomers. This book seems like great encouragement to go after our dream. It's never to late to follow it!

I wish you the best of success with your book! I enjoyed the tips on your website too! Thanks!

Sher, great to see you. When you get down is just when you need to come running to your friends so we can pick you back up again.

Just remember, life begins at 40. The first 40 years were the foundation for what is yet to come. Believe it and live it!

I agree with life beginning at 40.....and I never thought I'd say it, but it's pretty darned good at 50 too.....come to think of it, now that I'm actually closer to 60 than 50 I'm hoping THAT's even BETTER!

Don't feel bad about "feeling bad" either Sher..we ALL do once in a while, but it takes a special woman to ADMIT it and an even more special one to be open to receiving help from friends when we need it. Glad you are back.

I don't know who thought of the saying "pay it forward," and I saw the movie but its the best, neatest idea I've heard in a very long time.

Hi Ladies! I've been in and out of town and unable to check the forum on a regular basis. But now that I'm home again, I wanted to thank "Cher" and "Songbird" for their recent comments about my book. As I said in a previous posting, ya gotta believe! If the '69 Mets could come out of nowhere to win the World Series, anything is possible! My manuscript was rejected by 14 publishers before the 15th bought it. And the 15th didn't just buy it, they begged my agent to sell it to them! I will say, though, that before I even sent the first three chapters to my agent, I had my brilliant niece, who has the most discriminating ear for language on the planet (at least the most discriminating I know) read through the manuscript line by line and give me her critical feedback. She was kind, but brutal--just what I needed. In other words, I used all the help I had available to me to write the best book I could.

Whoops! I spelled "Sher" wrong, didn't I? Sorry about that.

Wow! 14 publishers? Girl, you got what it takes then. I would have eaten worms and died by then...

What an inspiration!

JJ

Prill, thanks for sharing. For clarification ...those rejections came through your agent?

Did you try submitting to any publishing houses on your own prior to acquiring an agent?

Hi Dotsie! You'll be happy to hear (from a keep-the-faith perspective) that the rejections came through my agent. He thought there'd be a bidding war for the book; instead he received from publishers one "thanks, but no thanks" after another.

JJ and Chatty--
Couldn't let this go without one more post about it.
When my daughter was a LITTLE girl I remember her looking at me while I was getting dressed and saying wistfully "Mommy, when I grow up I want long boobies just like yours!" How is that for a backsided compliment!!!! And I was only in my twenties!! Sob...You gotta love underwires!
CinderPrilla,
Congratulations on your book. I haven't seen your website yet, but I am eager to check it out. Fear has paralyzed me and kept me from achieving so many things. Grrrr!
Sher, Sher, Sher!!!
So happy to see you posting again. Your humor brightens my heart! Sometimes when I come onto the BWS site, I am just looking for a touch of humor and I look for yours and JJ's posts.
Don't you just wish that thin skinned meant weight loss? As in: "Look at that figure! She is so thin skinned and shapely ! Wowzingy!"