Longest Labour Ever - Introducing White Rabbit

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She is here.  Out in the world taking her first breaths.

It was conceived as a challenge accepted in November of 2015 - to write a novel of a minimum of 50,000 words.

Then editing.

And putting it away.

And pulling it out. 

And re-editing. 

Finally by the summer of 2018 to start to hand it out to beta readers. 

And to edit again. 

And to put it in the drawer again. 

Finally in the late summer of 2021 to be encouraged to just do it. 

And I did.  

In early September I tackled setting up an account with Kindle Direct Publishing. 

I navigated the forms, the tax implications, the formatting.  Oh, the formatting. 

And editing, Over and over. (Editors deserve our respect is all I can say).

Then on October 6, 2021 with my heart in my throat I phoned my sister. 

All I had to do was press the button. 

She and I held our collective breaths and I pressed PUBLISH.

Then I had to wait a few hours for Amazon to accept my novel...my baby. 

Almost six years from start to finish.  I have read and re-read this novel dozens of times and still there are parts of it that make me cry even though I know how it turns out in the end. 

The premise is fictional, but many of the chapters are my stories to tell, and now I have told them.

If you are interested in purchasing that would be great. 

If not, that is okay too. 

Just be kind.  She is mine and I love her.  I am being brave. Depression lies.  I want the world to know that and if one other person sees themselves in the pages, and finds some solace, or acknowledgement, or recognition or hope then I have succeeded. 

White Rabbit

by Mary-Anne Burton Taylor

published October 2021