The Wednesday Sisters A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton

Author:Meg Waite Clayton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780345507846
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: 2008-06-16T21:00:00+00:00

WHEN I RECEIVED the first positive response to my query letter the second Tuesday in January, my thrill was overrun with panic by the time I got to the agent’s bold, blue-ink signature. Before I knew it I’d revised two chapters entirely, screwing up the pagination. I was frantically retyping the whole thing when Danny got home late that night, and yes, he was happy for me, but I’d imagined him more excited. I’d imagined him not caring one whit about his dinner, which, by the time he got home, was three shriveled new potatoes, a pile of dried peas, and a hard lump of chicken left forgotten in the oven. I’d imagined him wrapping me up in a great big hug and calling me “the future famous novelist, M. F. O’Mara” again, saying we ought to open a bottle of champagne.

The next morning, though, the Wednesday Sisters made up for Danny’s restraint. They all wanted to touch the letter, as if it were literary spring water from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes.

“So, what in the world is a jiffy bag?” I asked. “And what does ‘on exclusive’ mean?”

By late afternoon, I was standing at the post office window handing over my manuscript, not completely retyped but with two page 34s labeled A and B as Danny had suggested. And even as I pushed Davy’s stroller toward home I was holding my breath, sure that at any moment the phone would ring and my literary life would begin.

Minutes turned into hours, days, and weeks, though, my initial euphoria dipping to cautious optimism, souring into apprehension, then rotting almost immediately into massive, Oreo-eating dread. Perhaps the manuscript was so bad that the agent was not even going to grace it with a rejection, too concerned any further correspondence with me might taint him.

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