When we started Owning Pink just over six months ago, I set a personal goal- I wanted to write books. I had already written a memoir that Barbara Poelle, my literary agent who I lovingly call Monkey Barbara, shopped around. A whole slew of editors took the book to editorial boards, where it got shot down by a whole slew of marketing departments who didn’t know how to put it in a box. The glowing rejection letters piled up.
Today, my book proposal goes to the editorial board at St. Martin’s Press, which means that a group of publishing experts who have read what I wrote will hash out whether it resonates with them enough to commit to buying my book.