‘Happily Ever After and What Happened after that.’

Part 2

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But now it was 2011, and I was going to be a published author and live happily ever after……..

There’s a picture book I’ve read a hundred times to my children—who luckily came along while I was expecting to be published any day—called The Fish & the Sea. It’s an old fable about a fisherman who has a very demanding wife. The fisherman catches a magic fish and the wife wants it to grant her every wish. Each time the fish does, the line in the book goes: “And the wife was happy. She was happy for three weeks.”

Well, to paraphrase: I was published. I was published for three years.

There were high times, some really peak moments, during those years. We spent fifteen months on the road as a family, visiting bookstores, libraries, schools, and book clubs, meeting readers. Who cares that we had to leave home, rent out our house, pour our finances into this trip? I was on my way to a career as an author, right?

But no one ever talks about what Cinderella did for seventy or eighty years after she married Prince Charming. That time gets condensed into three simple words.

After my third book was released, my editor was fired. I had a new book all ready to go, but no publisher for it, which threw my career into a tornado of spinning debris, and I still haven’t landed in Oz.

What will happen to me and my career, not to mention my dream, now?

I’m still not sure. That part of the story hasn’t been written yet.

So this post must conclude with a sign off we don’t usually see in fairy tales.

Hopefully Not The End

Bio:-

Jenny Milchman is the author of three acclaimed psychological thrillers, Cover of Snow, Ruin Falls, & As Night Falls. She won the Mary Higgins Clark award for best first novel and the Silver Falchion award for best novel. Her work has received praise from the New York Times, San Francisco Journal of Books, and numerous other publications. Jenny is the founder of Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, which is celebrated by over 800 bookstores on five continents, and the creator of the world’s longest book tour. Jenny lives with her family—when they are not on the road—in New York State.

Her short story ‘The Closet’ was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2012, and another short story, ‘The Very Old Man’, in 2014. The short work ‘Black Sun on Tupper Lake’ appears in the anthology ADIRONDACK MYSTERIES II.

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