I am very excited! I submitted a pitch to a West Virginia based publisher. He asked to read my work. Now he wants to speak via telephone. I hope I am not getting ahead of myself. I have a small collection of poetry I wrote during the first year following my son’s suicide. A couple pieces are very emotional. My original thought was a small chap-book, published from my desktop. Then I got the notion to just try to see if I could get a publisher.

As a member of the West Virginia Writer’s, Inc. I am part of their Facebook group. So, I posed a question a few days ago. I asked for suggestions of publishers to contact. Now, here I am.

I have been very cautious about posting anything related to his death. My mother still gets VERY emotional when it is mentioned. I’ve tried working on a book, but I get angry and upset. It is a pretty involved story, taking about four years, total, to work through.

So, I turned to poetry. I could get the words out “quickly” and move on. I didn’t over think things, I just keyed the words into the document and hit save. I did ask some people to review and comment on the works. Some of the suggestions I accepted, some I did not.

So, here I go.

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