Change of Ages

It was my greatest joy to become a published author late last year. It's slow going, but any new writing career takes a while to rev up don't you think? This is only one step of many. Other writers might have had an easier (or harder as the case may be) go of it but I've kept my eyes straight forward looking for that day when I could hold my own book in my hands.

For me writing became a passion in high school. I wrote all through college while I earned a degree in Biology; very contradictory, I know for a young adult author. I always wanted to be a paleontologist ... maybe one day. Anyway, I graduated and had a baby and got married. Staying home with her I spent the next ten years writing and submitting to agents all over the states. I had my successes, finding an agent only to lose them a year later. I was finally excepted into the Children's Literary Agency in New York and referred two years later to Eloquent Publishing. And now I'm published. While I look forward to publishing again I just wanted to spread the word about Purple Butterflies ... It was a young adult novel a long time in the writing and editing and writing again.
How about you? What trip did you take down the path to publishing?