Oh, To Be Published!

It's on my "Bucket List."  Number 1 - GET PUBLISHED.  I have a file full of rejection letters.  I stopped trying.  Life got busy.  I don't have time to be rejected.  I also haven't found the time (or finances) to travel to Italy - nor have I managed to win the heart of John Travolta - but, I'm working on it.

I have one complete novel and two that are works in progress.  I fantasize about a bookshelf full of spines that read Alanna J. Rusnak.  I also fantasize about seeing my name listed among the Canadian authors on the StarBucks wall in Chapters.

I have this vision of a book signing where I stand before a crowded house in dark framed glasses so I seem intelligent and a hippie skirt so I seem a bit eccentric and I read a excerpt from Aphasiac:

It had reached the few remaining pills beneath the vanity now. It being blood. Still warm. Already dead seven minutes. Thick and red. The air smelled like death. Like victory to the girl lying against the tiles, her naked stomach deeply inscribed upon with the blade of a kitchen knife. The pills were beginning to dissolve. Her slender arms were flung pointlessly above her head, palms up, reaching for the knife. It lay about a foot from her outstretched fingers. Just beyond her reach. There would be no more death tonight. It had sliced her stomach before she had collapsed. It had sliced her stomach deep enough to kill both she and the child she carried. A cold and brutal and intimate work of art.  


And the crowd is enrapt as I finish.  The room hangs in revered silence until one person starts a slow applause that spreads quickly as I wipe a quick tear born out of finally being appreciated...

       



1 comment:

  1. wow...I had no idea. I am wondering what other amazing things I don't know about you. What a tangled web we weave...Best of luck getting published, try not to be discouraged but rather encouraged by those of us who can hardly wait to read your books.

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