Finding a Publisher

Sooooo we have written a children's story and I say we because our little four year old gave me the idea for the book, anyway, so now I am trying to find a publisher and I thought it would be kind of like I write the story, I draw a few illustrations, I print it and post it off to various publishers, I hear back from one of them with an offer and Bob's your Uncle! Right! So where do I start? By Google of course. So I google AUTHOR SEEKING PUBLISHER'. and got lotsa stuff there but nothing concrete for me so then I google PUBLISHER SEEKING AUTHOR'. Doesn't get me anywhere fast. So now I try CHILDREN'S PUBLISHER SEEKING AUTHORS. Nope. Okay I shall not be out googled...next was CHILDREN'S PUBLISHER SEEKING MANUSCRIPTS' getting somewhere oh yessss! And then decided to be very intelligent :) and tried 'CHILDREN PUBLISHER SEEKING UNSOLICITED   MANUSCRIPTS' Because did you know that if a publisher did not inform you to write a certain book it is called 'unsolicited' and therefore you are a renegade writer sort of....Wow! Gots to get to that point where they are asking for me to write a book, definitely could do thaaaat! :D And in all this googl-ing I am learnig bit by bit more keywords to use from the world of publishing! Okay so then what happens is I found out that Publishers do not like to take manuscripts from authors but work through an agent. Right, google-ing AGENTS SEEKING / WANTING AUTHORS And then AGENT SEEKING / WANTING UNSOLICITED CHILDREN'S MANUSCRIPTS. And then I found out that agents are not so interested in first time publishers unless you have already at least published one other manuscript and it can't be self published either. So....here sits I with this dilemma...and  an idea pops back in my head. So I google AUTHOR SEEKING PUBLISHER.....!

By the way after several google hunts I managed to find some publishers that will accept  an 'UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPT' and am so eager to get to mailing...post office here I come! Btw LOTSA articles about how to use search engines, in my case google, for publishers..! :p

The offending piece of heavy duty equipment:D

My high heels

High heels are one item that are always guaranteed to make one look sophisticated, stylish, gorgeous and in my case masterfully taller. Always a plus if your younger sister is a couple of inches taller than  you. Smile Clare:) Anyway...so lovely Hubby just bought me a smashing pair of high heels in sort of a patent leather finish...just so prettttty! And I decided that to walk around in these things was going to take a bit of finesse so I thought that a practice run around the house couldn't hurt much. Hi Hubby! Don't mind me, just traipsing around the kitchen in my patent high heels with worn out faded pajamas on, sporting a hairdo that looks like something resembling a lovely bird's nest I believe! ;D So I am getting pretty attached to said shoes and marveling at the way they look...and a thought pops in my head of me running after a bouncy four year and two year old respectively. I am calmly thinking...could I dash after said little ones at the drop of a coin, and I am like...'Definitely couuulld!' Could I cross the street in these fashion statement 'I am not left' behind shoes holding firmly onto strong little hands just waiting to break free....'For sure!' And then...I had to leave the generously carpeted area of the house for that ever elusive tiled area of the wonderful, easy to clean, tiled kitchen floor...and what do you think happened? Yupp...btw...did you know as a point of interest walking on a carpeted floor in high heeled shoes is vastly different than walking on a tiled surface? And there behold came the final chop and that is that these admirable pair of shoes with their no grip soles and heels, because of course they wouldn't be really grippy shoes, they were not invented for hiking various kinds of  terrains or designed to withstand all kinds of weather conditions and all sort of animal life trying to bite brought your shoes like a pair of hiking boots, so intelligently noted that  'hey....these feel abit dangerous on a tiled floor!' so a cautious strut and a quick look in the microwave door reflection reveals what I am ashamed to say, when a crouch like stance and a toe gripping is going on just so one can maneuver around on the tiles without slipping occurs it so looks like I can't walk in these fashion stalwarts, so back straight, head high I come to hinting of a solution...and what comes to mind is a lovely tape they put on slippery tiles at the mall so shoppers don't slip on the dangerously glossy tiles, and no...ahem...I was not thinking of hiring a construction crew to regally walk before me everywhere I go just to place a walkway of taped tiles before me as the proverbial red carpet, but that would be nice, no, ahem , I was thinking of hunting down a roll of this MAGNIFICENT tape and shedding both my soles and the heels of my hubby-bought-patent-looking-just-lovely heels and here's hoping that that will help me strut my stuff. PS. If you see me strutting, please act like you never read this and just admire my pretty shoes and totally ignore how this wearer walks in them. Here's to happy hunting for that ground-breaking-trail -blazing tape! :D