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26 Apr 2007, 7:12 pm / Happy
A year ago, I was ready to kill my sister. She had self-published a novel, after trying to get it printed by a mainstream publisher, to no avail. So, she published it herself and then wrote to ALL my friends. I think her email program automatically added addresses, and many times I had her copied on emails with some of them at one point or another. She probably just sent mail to her whole address book, and my friends were in there. I hit the ROOF.
My sister has busted her back on that book. Yeah, she made me nuts at times (picking out business cards was like making a decision pertaining to US foreign policy!), but she hustled unlike anything I've seen.
In January, she had a major breakthrough. A serious NY agent signed her, in part because she was so successful in self-publishing and marketing herself and selling books.
This past week, the agent got her meetings with several major publishers in NY city. It paid off. Today was OFFER day. The offers came in, and she is going with one that made her a MAJOR two-book deal for hardcover books!!! 
I am so incredibly happy for her, I'm ready to bust!! She MADE her dreams come true. How many people do that?! She has absolutely busted ass and made it pay off.
The hardcover won't come out until next June, but I'll be filling everyone in as things develop. This is SUCH a motivating story, especially when i look at this site--my "novel". I know if we just keep pushing, making this site's tools as good as we can, and recruiting serious fans to come visit, we have the potential to be a site unlike any site on the web!
And that's my goal--to make this THE fan site. A place for fans to be fans and not to be hit up with porn, spam, hit-ons, and other crap. I want myFandoms to truly be FAN CENTRAL!!!
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