this woman’s work

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Corrie is finally back from her babymoon! I wish she would write a book ‘cuz I so want to own it!

Remember how I said that our agency precalls people if there’s something in a woman’s history that might be an issue before sharing our bio with her? We just got our first precall. In fact, there was nothing in her history that alarmed me although there were a couple of things I thought might be worrisome to Brett. He surprised me by saying it sounded fine. So they’ll be sharing our biography and I hope hope hope that she likes us. The baby is due September 14th.

She wants annual visits and that’s one reason I’m hoping this works out. It would be wonderful to get to see her once a year; that’s something I’m really praying for with the birth mother who chooses us.

I was thinking how MamaMojo said she had a feeling about last week for us. At the time I wondered if we would be contacted or if it would be something on the birth mother’s end not visible to us. I don’t know if this woman will end up placing her child with us but it’s nice to feel that things are moving and there really is a baby at the end of this book.

Brett was annoying me. He woke up in a teasing mood and drove Noah and me to distraction. I told him that I was going to make a list of the top reasons I should leave him. Here it is:
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I’m caught up at work (finally!) and happened to catch my muse as she wandered by the house so I went back to focusing on my book proposal. I hadn’t wanted to work on it since I got the first sample chapter done. It’s hard to wait for inspiration to return because it’s not something that I can force. No good will come of trying to force it but if I’m patient, it’ll come my way again.

Having work neatly scheduled helped and also hearing some news that changed how I was looking at fall (work news, not adoption news) and voila! There I was wanting to write on my book again.

I sent a query letter to an agent — only one because she was recommended to me by an editor for whom I’ve written a couple of times. If she doesn’t bite, I’ll query my author-friend’s agent and if that doesn’t work out, I’ll start cold-queries. Meanwhile, I’m trying to finish out the proposal and add a bit to the first sample chapter (not the one I passed around here).

Hope my muse sticks around long enough to let me get it done.