Get yourself a friend who spends an hour and a half on the phone with you, live editing a synopsis for a Pitch Wars submission who, when you apologize, doesn’t think anything of it and passionately exclaims “I want you to get in.”
Get yourself a friend who you also passionately want to get in, because they know how to write a damn good story. Get yourself a friend who you can piggyback off their writing timeline all year and cross your fingers you can piggyback off them all the way to the bookshelf — that’s where they’re going, anyone can see it.
Get yourself a friend who does all the Pitch Wars YA mentor research for you and sends you a color-coded spreadsheet specific to your story and saves you hours of time.
Get yourself a friend who say “Jack” in that same loving, pained voice that you do when talking about your main character.
Get yourself a friend who submits to Pitch Wars with you, section by section, we copy and paste, and double-check and they count down for us, 3, 2, 1, submit.
Get yourself a friend who believes in you, believes in your writing, like Lin believes in mine. Like I believe in theirs.
With Love,
Natalie