Since I mailed out my Three Little Kittens dummies in December, it has been so long I had lost hope of ever receiving back any of the books I sent– I figured they were all in the trash/being used to scrape dead flies off of walls, because most publishers now have an understandable policy of not returning any submissions. But this publisher returned my dummy….. AND my business card, AND my postcard, AND all my sample sheets

(I was hoping they would at least keep the samples…)

But seriously, the first rejection is a major achievment, since it means I actually sent something out to begin with. I just might frame this rejection letter as a sign that I am now an OFFICIAL aspiring-hopeful-wannabe children’s book Author/Illustrator. Woohoo!