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Enclosed you will find a contract for your review. We hope to hear from you soon, and congratulations on a job well done. (Our editor particularly enjoyedyour poems regarding the spriggan. What an incredible imagination you have!)
Best,
Mr. Hamish McCrary, Northern Publishing
“Well done, my darling,” said Keir. He gave Alison a quick kiss. “Is it what you want?”
Alison took the book back from Gwenla and looked at it. It was frightening, imagining the book in stores. Sitting on a shelf, being picked up by a stranger. The words she had put together, the stories from her real experiences (and some from her imagination, too, although obviously not the parts about the spriggan) being shared with the world. Was she ready for it?
She looked around at the faces of her friends and family, the beautiful home they’d built together, and the stack of kind regards from even those who were absent, and she knew what she wanted to do.
“I think I’m ready,” she said.
“Wonderful!” said Gwenla. “Would you read it to us first?”
Alison was nervous to read her own words out loud, but here in Wilderise, anything was possible. “With pleasure,” she said, and she opened the book to the first page and began to read.
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