I have mentioned that my Special Olympics book idea was not going anywhere. I could not pull it out of my heart, and my Kennedy connection is currently tied up with a lot of his own work, so it appears that it is not the time for that book.<\/p>\n
However — I have come up with a new idea that is based on an old one. I have been working on chapter headings and descriptions, as well as parts of the new proposal. I sent this little bit to my agent, who is no longer an agent but is able to be mine for a bit longer.<\/p>\n
My agent LOVES my new project idea! You have to understand, she hardly loves anything!!!! She is a curmudgeon, with a heart of gold, but she is a tough New York chick so I always get chewed out when I send her stuff. (“Are you sure this wasn’t already done by so-and-so?” and “The title is flat” and “Are you absolutely sure that every word here is your absolute best writing? No laziness!”)<\/p>\n
I sent her the chapter headings and descriptions and she actually wrote back within a few days, using words like “GREAT” and “FANTASTIC” and “YOU’VE DONE IT!!!”<\/p>\n
Now the work begins — and for me that is not the writing of the thing but the marketing analysis of the proposal. I have to spend days doing research and going to bookstores to analyze the competition and making my case. But — I already have 20 pages of the proposal, because the “Why me\/about the author” section was very easy. I already have a publicity record because of Making Peace With Autism,<\/span> which is out in paperback<\/a>, a fact that speaks very well for my marketability. (By the way, Making Peace With Autism<\/span> would make an excellent gift for extended family members, neighbors, teachers, doctors, lunch ladies, bus drivers, friends; anyone who doesn’t quite “get it” about autism but would like to. It is primarily a hopeful book, honestly written, not depressing, and nobody gets cured in the end, except me, of my autism myopia! It is not prescriptive, but rather, descriptive).<\/p>\n Once I’ve handed in the proposal (probably by the new year) I will go public with the idea and ask for your help because I want to make sure that this book matches the needs of parents with kids with disabilities.<\/p>\n So, stay tuned… I have mentioned that my Special Olympics book idea was not going anywhere. I could not pull it out of my heart, and my Kennedy connection is currently tied up with a lot of his own work, so it appears that it is not the time for that book. However — I have come up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-iw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And buy my paperback! Heck, buy two! It’s cheap enuf.
BTW, the opening line about Nat’s birthday has been subtly changed… to be more fair to him, my sweet boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"