I am so excited. Someone else is actually going to publish an essay I write. There are black and blue marks where I have been pinching myself.
At the beginning of the year, my friend Meg encouraged me to think about looking for places to submit some of my work for publication. She even suggested a couple of starting points. As is typical for me, I placed it on the back-burner to let it simmer for a bit, too scared (although I wouldn't admit that out loud) to actually actively look. I decided that I'd wait a year or so and see how things go.
I regularly read the essays posted on A Beautiful Mess blog and website run by author Kristin Ritzau with help from her managing editor Rebecca Stone. One of the posts included a call for submissions for Spring or Summer, each season with a different "prompt" or theme. It simply jumped out at me. I am sure these "calls" are posted several times a year on the site, but somehow I NEVER noticed them before. Whack on the head with the Holy 2x4. Here is what I'd been encouraged to do - RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES, and all I need to do was ask. Ask, and it will be given. After some encouraging self-talk I dashed off a note to Ms. Stone, suggesting that I could write an essay. AND, lo and behold, an answer, asking me to submit a piece on "Listening to Our Dreams."
My submission deadline is mid-May for early June publication/posting. I will cross-post the essay here, too. In the meantime, please visit the good women over at A Beautiful Mess and have a look around. They've left the light on.
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