This afternoon PorchLight Press (my mock publishing house) sat down with two children’s book editors for a review of our prospectus and titles. Surprisingly, they liked most of our books and felt that our prospectus was “very cohesive” (something we’d been told our work was NOT two days ago).

Most importantly, one of the editors voiced serious interest in my Dr. Ruthless® book. She saw the marketing possibilities, likes the concept, feels the book is needed. She gave me her contact info, and asked me to get in touch with her. This is very exciting.

When I originally spoke to Melissa Soalt aka Dr. Ruthless® about this project, I took excruciating pains to articulate that this was a MOCK publishing house and just a hypothetical book. However, I also felt that it was my duty to let her know that there was a small possibility that a REAL editor might be interested in the book and want to purchase it. I felt bad saying that because I didn’t want to get her hopes up (what was it the agents said about their primary job being “management of expectations”?), but it would have really sucked NOT to tell her about the possibilty of a “real” book, have her agree to let me do the mock-up, and then have someone who wanted to publish it learn that Dr. Ruthless® wasn’t really into the idea of REALLY making the book.

I think that now I may have made the right decision to risk getting her hopes up.

This is very exciting.

[Update: although this idea was presented to a publishing house, they felt that it could potentially be "dangerous" for young women who might not be able to effectively use the tools to get out of situations. Potentially, they thought the book might make the publisher liable for a girl's inability to protect herself using the techniques in it.]