I Submit!

Here we go then. Having spent a good part of the weekend knocking my synopsis into shape - the final (final) (no, really) stage of preparing my novel for submission - I composed my first email query letter and, after checking it about 50 times for spelling, grammar, panache, zizz, fizz and whizz, I closed my eyes and pressed Send.

There will come a time, and it's probably not too long in the future, when this process will become... well... just a process. But the first time? Equal measures scary and exciting. A bit like the first time you make love without contraception.

Then Nikki pointed out it's Labour Day in the States (my first submission is to a New York agency) so it probably won't be read until tomorrow. Now I really do feel like a pricked balloon. Or, to continue the lovemaking metaphor, a burst condom.