Rally to the Finish Line

Submitting the book proposal and a few thoughts on the knowing contained in the body

Fractals of Awakening (detail) by Crystal Marie

Hello friends,

It’s been just over a month since I last wrote a post just for the members here to support the writing of the book. The month of October began as planned, with a commitment to babysitting my youngest granddaughter for the week, while my daughter and the rest of her family took a road trip. I naively forgot how exhausting it is to be full time caretaker to a 21 month-old toddler, and how impossible it is to get anything done during nap time except to fall on the couch and stare at the ceiling in a stupor.

Somewhere during our week together, we both caught whatever demon respiratory flu is being passed around the playground, leaving me with little ability to focus on work well into the middle of the month. I’ve been in scramble to catch up mode, a.k.a. survival mode, ever since.

If you’d asked me just a few days ago, I would have told you I wasn’t going to manage to get the book proposal submitted by the deadline for the publishing contest I had the opportunity to take part in. I’d resigned myself to the fact that there was not enough time to get the extensive requirements for the proposal written and organized and would need to submit my proposal the old-fashioned way, through a book query under the standard submission guidelines of the publisher and hope for the best.

But this morning something inside me rallied. I woke with the conviction that I have enough content; I just need to bring it all together in an orderly fashion, organize it and get the requirements written.

Here’s the list the publisher sent, if your curious about what formal a book proposal entails: