After several months of submitting Ray’s manuscript “Love at Third Sight” to literary agents, we finally got a book deal with Penguin Publishing last week. The manuscript is currently being edited by one of their professional editors and we have a terrific Project Manager who has been very encouraging. I am absolutely over the moon about it!
The back-story is that Ray wrote the book 40 years ago. When we moved into the new house I found a tote filled with yellowing typewritten pages. You know, with one of those old electric typewriters! LOL I immediately asked him to get the pages in order and give them to me to put in digital format. It took a month for me to type it up in Microsoft Word, but now we have it.
Then we started editing. Seven versions later we were ready to start submitting. We had four rejections, or maybe five. And I needed to submit individually each time as each agent has different criteria and number of pages or chapters they want submitted. So finally getting this deal with Penguin Publishing is a huge relief for me! Now I feel like we are moving forward.
Next steps are author photo and bio and the book cover itself. I mentioned to the Project Manager that Ray is an artist and we may want to use one of his paintings for the cover, she loved the idea, remarking that it will make the book more personal.
So, off we go! Book deal for Ray with Penguin Publishing
