![]() The thing I’d been working forever toward-it’s here. The thing that I could have never prepared for is, after the deal settled in, I felt the next years of my life hurtle at me. It was truly to my utter relief that she adored my manuscript, too, and we were both so excited to finally yell at each other (“You were watching me? I was watching you?”). Hannah and I have been not-subtly circling each other ever since she read my short story “Fools” in Foreshadow. This book couldn’t be in better hands from my agent to my now-editor Hannah and the team at Delacorte. There were more fun details in the call and subsequent calls and emails that flew around, and this all happened very fast. I leapt out of bed! Crashed into the bathroom to brush my teeth! Fumbled for my phone! ![]() Then a week later I get an email from Elana mentioning “fun news”-two hours after she sent it because I am a west coast timezone straggler. My agent Elana sent emails out to editors and I descended into literal hell by playing Hades (I’ve since gotten the true epilogue, by the way). ![]() I went into sub(mission hell) with a glorious mix of high hopes and low expectations, which was the only practical way I could process things: want for everything, expect nothing. ![]()
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