A Girl Made of Dreams and Words (A Cornish Hotel by the Shore Book 6) by Briggs Laura
Author:Briggs, Laura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-27T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twelve
Number five. I read it twice to be sure, my phone cupped in the palm of my hand. Number five on the book charts â my book, my words on its pages.
I sank down on the park bench, my sneakers tucked back underneath. Momentarily, my errand to meet my editor and discuss my princess with the fortune-telling magic was forgotten. It was as if I was holding a miniature of my story, like a baby bird fallen from a nest into my hand, even though this was proof its flight carried it far beyond the horizon I envisioned. This was the fantasy of Arnold, the kind of career improbability that he optimistically kept alive with each book's debut.
My breath came short. Everything will change if you reach number one, Arnold had told me in a recent email. I couldn't help thinking of Helen Corton's spring prediction, that odd confidence that my talent would overtake Saxx and Brighton's runaway bestseller, who was still buoying between the top three places for months. Impossible, I had believed.
My screen went black as my phone went to sleep on the e-book chart's page. I caught my breath again, taking a deep one to clear my head before shoving my phone into my bag and resuming my walk. It wouldn't be long before I heard from Arnold, probably, because my first interview for The Celestine Man was debuting today, by coincidence. This news would only add fuel to his promotional fire. Fire with a purpose, possibly.
The reason for my meeting was an email I received yesterday from my editor â a short, sharp business directive that surprised me. Received solicitation from your agent regarding new manuscript, feel we need to discuss matters. Will Tuesday suit? Reply if so. Ten at the usual place would be acceptable. Brad.
Terse, but I expected as much, if I ever had the occasion to read a communication from him again. But this latest bit of news had taken me so by surprise that I was thinking only of it. Had I seen a giant poster of my book framed on the next street instead of a poster for the circus, I could have defied gravity and floated above the pavement the rest of the way.
The dull little coffee shop where Brad and I had met multiple times during the revision process for my second book had not changed visually, except for an additional poster advertising a responsibly-sourced Peruvian fruit shake. Even the patrons looked like the ones who had been here last time, as if that same boy in dreadlocks and a Rastafarian shirt had been sitting forever at the counter, reading his social media account.
Even Brad hadn't changed, except he had ditched the flowing infinity scarf from last year, and was wearing one of those trendy new unisex shirts I had seen in magazines, that reminded me of some vintage kitchen towels of my mom's â the two-tone kind with bright floral colors faded out by many washings. He was still wearing his glasses, however, although the expensive frames were probably passe now.
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