You know you're dreaming when....
                                                               Copyright 2002 by Lindsey Brookes

  1.  The editor calls to buy your book one week after you query her.

  2.  Agents are fighting over you.

  3.  You sell your first category book and get a six digit advance.

  4.  Oprah picks your romance to be in the "Oprah Book Club".

  5.  Johnny Depp offers to buy rights to your book so he can make it into a movie and be the leading man.

  6.  Your town wants to name a street after you, their published pride and joy.

  7.  You attend your class reunion and everyone there has a copy of your book they are just dying to have autographed.

  8.  You're at your first book signing and people are lined up out the door to get their hands on your book.

  9.  The editor buys your book, telling you it's perfect, no revisions necessary.

  10. Nora Roberts calls to ask you for advice.

                                You know you’re a writer when.......

                                                                  Copyright 2001 by Lindsey Brookes

  1.    You name your pets after characters or scenes from a book.

  2.    You accidentally call you children by your hero/heroines’ names.

  3.    Housecleaning to you means organizing your desk.

  4.    You’re on a first name basis with your mailman.

  5.    You get pulled over for speeding and your explanation is... “My hero and heroine distracted        me by bringing in a baby I didn’t  plan on in my outline.

  6.    You can get away with looking at sexy men/women in an underwear catalog by telling your  spouse, “It’s research.”

  7.    You get your first real “rejection”, but keep on writing because the words need to come out.

  8.    Your mainstay is chocolate.

  9.    Someone irks you and they end up in your next book in a not so good way.

  10.   You find yourself coming up with story ideas at the strangest times, in the midst of lovemaking,  at the grocery store, during a trip to the gynecologist, etc.