My call was actually an e-mail.

In May of 2005, I pitched to an editor from Loose Id at the Romantic Times Conference in St. Louis. The full manuscript was requested, which led to lots of shouts of joy afterwards. I submitted and waited anxiously to hear back.

It was a Sunday night, and I was up late working on another project. The editor wrote to say she’d read Blood Kiss and hoped I hadn’t submitted anywhere else. I couldn’t yell, everyone else was asleep, but I ran upstairs, waking up my husband to excitedly whisper, “I think they like it.”
Two days later, after a couple of other emails, a contract showed up in my inbox. I could yell then, and I snoopy danced around the house with my three year old looking at me like I was nuts.
Mechele Armstrong writes romances while being a Mom to two active girls, a pooch, and a lot of naked Barbies. www.mechelearmstrong.com

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