Dating after 8 years of wedded bliss…
No, my sweet, sanity inducing husband didn’t leave me after all of this time (we celebrated 8 “official church years” yesterday). I feel like I’m back in the dating scene again though, specifically the online dating scene.
As my friend and mentor, Sharon, and I sit in the coffee house caffeinating ourselves, I am pouring over literary agent websites. Apparently, with the tenacity of a 40 year old with her biological clock ticking, reading E-harmony profiles.
“Oh!” I’ll exclaim, “this one is taking new submissions! He wants non-fiction”, my voice rising with excitement. “oh, wait, it says ‘no memoirs’. Sigh. I’ll try another one.”
The rejections come in without even a first date- too short, not the right genre, or sometimes the generic “thanks but no thanks.”
“READ ME!” I want to email back to them. “at least the first few chapters.” No, they have already moved on, eyeing the cute blonde with the cleavage shot in her profile.
Joanna Nunez, Author 